by the way, this TSO feature is a very valuable feature nowadays, since it constitute a major componant in iSCSI implementations.
iSCSI: internet SCSI (blocks over IP):- leavrage your existing IP infrastructure to get a SAN solution add another 0.02$ Ali Al-Khalidi > I have had this box that would simply lose connectivity every day or so > for > a hot minute! The link would still be lit and all that, brand new patch > cables, latest Kernel (by Distro). Anyhow after some hard work (research > that is) some weird thing solved the problem. The driver is an e1000 > (Intel > Gigabit driver). These new guys have a TSO feature (TCP Segmentation > Offload) by which "enables a system's protocol stack to offload portions > of > outbound TCP processing to a network interface card thereby reducing > system > CPU utilization and enhancing performance." Apparently this is not perfect > yet and turning it off solved my problem. > > ethtool -K eth0 tso off > > Just my $0.02 > > p.s. You can get it from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ > > -- > abulyomon > > www.KiLLTHeUPLiNK.com <http://www.KiLLTHeUPLiNK.com> > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org
