William Lovaton wrote:
> El lun, 08-12-2008 a las 10:05 -0800, Kok, Auke escribió:
>> William Lovaton wrote:
>>> Interesting, I have the following:
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ethtool -k eth1
>>> Offload parameters for eth1:
>>> rx-checksumming: on
>>> tx-checksumming: on
>>> scatter-gather: on
>>> tcp segmentation offload: off
>>> udp fragmentation offload: off
>>> generic segmentation offload: on
>>>
>>> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network
>>> Connection (rev 02)
>>>
>>> Using the e1000e driver.
>> that's strange, tso defaults to 'on' in the e1000e driver. You don't really 
>> care
>> about ufo, it's only beneficial for very specific network loads that are 
>> uncommon.
>>
>> I suspect something in the stack might disable them. Can you turn it back on?
>>
>> `ethtool -K eth0 tso on` ?
> 
> Yes, I can enable tso on my card but I need to do this every time I
> reboot.  If I try to enable ufo I get the following:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ethtool -K eth1 ufo on
> Cannot set device udp large send offload settings: Operation not
> supported
> 
> I guess this is because of the driver not supporting ufo, right?

yes

> What can I do to activate tso by default? maybe a driver parameter? or
> should I file a bug report against my distro?

you can add an option through the modprobe.conf system to run a post-modprobe 
command.

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