On 3/13/11 10:29 AM, Tom Eastep wrote:
> If you find that outgoing traffic crawls along no matter how high you
> set the bandwidth, then you can apply this workaround. Install the
> 'ethtool' package, then in /etc/shorewall/init, add this command:
> 
>       ethtool -K ethX tso off gso off
> 
> where ethX is the affected interface.
> 
> This workaround turns off TCP segmentation offloading and Generic
> segmentation offloading in the NIC.
> 
> I'll be working on a better approach that will allow this offloading to
> be re-enabled.

The better approach is to adjust the specified <minburst>. I suggest
starting with 10kb which works well for me. Here's what I have in my
tcinterfaces file:

#IFACE TYPE     IN-BANDWIDTH OUT-BANDWIDTH
eth0   External 50mbit:200kb 5.0mbit:100kb:200ms:100mbit:10kb
                                                        -----
With this setting, I was able to re-enable TSO/GSO using:

ethtool -K eth0 tso on gso on

-Tom
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