Joseph wrote:
> Can anyone clarify the following:
>
> 1. As of Solaris 10 update 3 (11/06), what level of support it has on TOE?
>
TOE is basically not supported. However, certain cards support LSO
(segmentation offload), and IP checksum offload.
> 2. Does anyone have experience with TOE on Broadcom NetXtreme II? In the
> driver configuration file, I find
>
> ############################################################################
> # Checksum : configures checksum task which are offloaded to asic,
> # namely transport (TCP / UDP) or network (IP) protocol checksum
> # offload. By default no checksum is offloaded. Legal values are -
> # 0 : No checksum offload.
> # 1 : TCP & IP checksum generation is offloaded for outbound packets
> # 2 : TCP & IP checksum validation is offloaded for ingress packets
> # 3 : Both TCP / IP checksum is offloaded in both direction.
> # For examples, configure adapters of instance#0 and instance#3 to
> # checksum offload.
> #
> Checksum=3,3,3,3,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0;
> #Checksum=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0;
> ############################################################################
>
> I have two Broadcom NIC port, bnx0 and bnx1. Does it mean both of them has
> checksum offload enabled?
>
That certainly seems to be what it is saying.
> 3. Is there a command in Solaris to verify TOE like "netstat -ont" in
> Windows? I have enabled TOE in BIOS and no way to know if Solaris is actually
> using it.
>
I think you are saying TOE when you mean "checksum offload". TOE (TCP
Offload Engine) is a *much* different beast... and it isn't supported in
Solaris (for some really good reasons...)
But essentially, the answer to your question is "no". :-(
-- Garrett
>
> Thanks.
>
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