Andrew Gallatin wrote: > FWIW, unplub/plumb is still not much better than the current situation > of removing/adding the driver. Every other OS lets you change these > settings on the fly, potentially without even taking the NIC down. > (assuming the NIC hardware doesn't require a reset; and even if it > does, that reset happens without administrator intervention). > > I think there needs to be a m_setcapap() or something similar > to notify drivers of what capabilities are enabled. >
That wouldn't be necessary; the m_setprop() entry point could be used to turn on LSO in the driver. There just needs to be a way of getting the stack to notice - as with an MTU change. Paul _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
