Quite right... even some of the NICs that Sun ships today in its x86 hardware support LSO but Solaris does not.
There may even be EOL'd hardware for which this is true. Darren Leonid Grossman wrote: >Frank, > >Just wanted to point out that LSO is not a "one vendor solution". > >LSO adoption in the industry started back in 1998, in early GbE days. At >present virtually all 10GbE or GbE NIC vendors and all Operating Systems >support LSO. > >Solaris LSO support was actually long overdue, but now it can leverage >hardware feature that is (and likely will be, for foreseeable future) >the only de-facto NIC standard for stateless tx pdu offload. > >Leonid > > _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
