From: "Leonid Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:04:47 -0400

> Why the total length has to be in the header, there may be other
> ways to pass the total TSO length to the driver?

Because the packet has to look like a legal IPV4 frame
for the rest of the networking stack, for things like
netfilter, the packet scheduler classifiers, and whatnot.

This limitation is thus hard and fixed.
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