Comment 82 for bug 60764

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Romulus (launchpad-keithtyler) wrote :

BTW, On an Asus EEE PC, "ethtool -K eth0 rx off" is rejected. However, "ethtool -K eth0 tx off" will in fact turn off *both* TX and RX checksumming (and vice versa).

romulus@meatwad:~$ sudo ethtool -k eth0
Offload parameters for eth0:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: off
tcp-segmentation-offload: off
udp-fragmentation-offload: off
generic-segmentation-offload: on
generic-receive-offload: off
large-receive-offload: off
romulus@meatwad:~$ sudo ethtool -K eth0 rx off
Cannot set device rx csum settings: Operation not supported
romulus@meatwad:~$ sudo ethtool -K eth0 tx off
romulus@meatwad:~$ sudo ethtool -k eth0
Offload parameters for eth0:
rx-checksumming: off
tx-checksumming: off
scatter-gather: off
tcp-segmentation-offload: off
udp-fragmentation-offload: off
generic-segmentation-offload: on
generic-receive-offload: off
large-receive-offload: off