Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix kernel crash with macvtap on top of LRO

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 01:14:20PM -0500, David Miller wrote:

From: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 16:20:46 +0000

quoted

If the consensus is still that we must preserve packets exactly (aside
from the usual modifications by IP routers) then LRO should be disabled
on all devices for which forwarding is enabled.

I believe this is still undoubtedly the consensus.

With virtio we are getting packets from a linux host,
so we could thinkably preserve packets exactly
even with LRO. I am guessing other hardware could be
doing this as well.

I am not sure what information would need to be preserved -
could someone help clarify please?

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