From: Cong Wang <cw...@twopensource.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:41:47 -0700
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.k...@citrix.com> wrote: >> This is a prototype patch to enable sending TCP packets with pktgen. The >> original motivation is to test TCP GSO with xen-netback/netfront, but I'm not >> sure about how the checksum should be set up, and also someone should verify >> the >> GSO settings I'm using. >> > > What's the point of sending TCP packets since you don't establish a TCP > connection? I guess they want to test checksumming and aggregation, things like that. The other side is of course going to spew reset packets back at the pktgen machine. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
