Well the Xen documentation specifically mentions it. The Debian Xen packages specifically create network config within VMs for it - as well as documenting the same. And I have personally experienced it - the last time causing me me a couple of days of head scratching until I figured out how to disable hardware tx checksum offload on F5's LTM VE.
I can only comment from experience - if that's not good enough then I don't know what else I can offer. Dave On 16/12/2011, at 11:27 AM, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Dave Whitla <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Sheili, >> >> A particular case to be aware of is when combining Linux bridging with >> 802.1q vlans. Hardware tx checksum offload does not work properly in this >> scenario, so it is advisable to disable tx checksum offloading in virtual >> machines which connect to vifs mapped to a vlan or a trunk port to which >> untagged ports are also bridged. In my personal testing of OVS the same >> applies. > > Again, that's simply not true or, at best, what you're describing is a > generalization from a specific NIC/driver issue that you've seen. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
