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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] IPv6 Offload Capabilities
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Hello,

On 01/05/2015 08:56 AM, Gal Sagie wrote:
> I noticed that in version 1.8, there are no flags to indicate IPv6 check
> sum offloading
> (only DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_IPV4_CKSUM)

There is no L3 checksum field in IPv6 header, that's why there is no
DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_IPV6_CKSUM flag.

> which means TSO offloading is also not supported for IPv6.

TSO is supported for IPv6. Please see the test report sent on the
mailing list:
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-November/007991.html

Regards,
Olivier