On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 11:13:04AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2023 19:03:58 +0200, Jan Klemkow wrote:
> > This diff introduces separate flags for TCP offloading.  We split this
> > into LRO (large receive offloading) and TSO (TCP segmentation
> > offloading).  Thus, we are able to turn it on/off separately.
> >
> > For ifconfig(8) we use "tcprecvoffload" and "tcpsendoffload".  So, the
> > user has a better insight of what this features are doing.
> 
> Is it possible to control these at the address family level?  In
> other words, is it possible to enable "tcprecvoffload" and
> "tcpsendoffload" for inet but not inet6 or vice versa?

For tcprecvoffload and ix(4) it's not possible to enable/disable it per
address family.  Its just one flag for the hardware.

For tcpsendoffload its possible, but I won't do that till its necessary.

Why would you want to differentiate the address families here?

bye,
Jan

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