http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=616263 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=616263#c0 Summary: ethtool has no way to turn off gro Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Factory Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: richard.coe@med.ge.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.5.9-0.1.1 Firefox/3.5.9 GTB7.0 ethtool-6 has no way to turn off gro. ethtool 2.6.33 added support for gro 'generic-recieve-offload' The intel ethernet driver defaults to gro on. Due to a bug in the network driver with some network transfers, this yields to networking errors which slows network transfers to be very degraded. Turning off gro restores network performance. Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.