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On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Paolo Pisati wrote:

> Then, after a discussion on irc, pull the plug on any present (and future) 
> hackery & half-baked solution, and declare in kernel libalias incompatible 
> with tso.

This seems silly -- why is it not compatible?  Perhaps I misunderstand, but I 
thought TSO passed down valid TCP/IP packets, they just happen to be really 
long, and will be post-processed by the hardware into a series of shorter 
segments with the same header properties.  Imagine the ethernet device as a 
"router" that's performing TCP fragmentation for you, rather than IP 
fragmentation.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge