[Bro-Dev] snaplen and drops

[William Jones]

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Lothar Braun [mailto:braun at net.in.tum.de] 
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:00 PM
To: William Jones
Cc: 'Robin Sommer'; Martin Holste; bro-dev at bro-ids.org
Subject: Re: [Bro-Dev] snaplen and drops

Hi,

On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:21 PM, William Jones wrote:

> What version of linux are you running.   Redhat 5 doesn't seem to have a lro option just the gro option which does not seem to affect the LRO behavior.


Indeed, gro will only affect the software-based receive offload.

Old ethtool versions do not allow lro manipulations on the command line. We are using ethtool 2.6.34, which offers this option.

Best regards,
  Lothar

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