Re: [PATCH] IPV6 : segmentation offload not set correctly on TCP children

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From: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:43:53 -0700

> TCP over IPV6 would incorrectly inherit the GSO settings.
> This would cause kernel to send Tcp Segmentation Offload packets for
> IPV6 data to devices that can't handle it. It caused the sky2 driver
> to lock http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7050
> and the e1000 would generate bogus packets. I can't blame the
> hardware for gagging if the upper layers feed it garbage.
> 
> This was a new bug in 2.6.18 introduced with GSO support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>

Good catch.  Applied, thanks Stephen.
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