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Michael Tuexen wrote:

 > I'm not sure if we need additional IFCAP_RXCSUM6 IFCAP_TXCSUM6
 > capabilities... Why would we want to enable IPv4 offloading and
 > not IPv6 or vice versa?

I'd assume that some older hardware supports IPv4 offloads, but
might not have support for IPv6 offloads.

Drew