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

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:43:53PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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]>

Thanks for catching this Stephen!

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References:
- sky2 doesn't receive any packages after I ssh in via ipv6 and edit a file in vim (reproducable)
  - From: Thomas Glanzmann <[email protected]>
- [PATCH] IPV6 : segmentation offload not set correctly on TCP children
  - From: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>

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