Re: [tcpdump-workers] guessing when TSO is present

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Jones
Guy Harris wrote: On Apr 7, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Rick Jones wrote: As for checking against the normal MTU, does tcpdump/libpcap have that information? Only to the extent that it could infer that from the link-layer type. (Jumbo frames might make that tricky.) And since TSO _really_ work

Re: [tcpdump-workers] guessing when TSO is present

2006-04-07 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 7, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Rick Jones wrote: As for checking against the normal MTU, does tcpdump/libpcap have that information? Only to the extent that it could infer that from the link-layer type. (Jumbo frames might make that tricky.) Does libpcap/tcpdump have any way of knowing th

Re: [tcpdump-workers] guessing when TSO is present

2006-04-07 Thread Rick Jones
ronnie sahlberg wrote: large segment offload (LSO) can be easily detected by TCP checksum==0and being incorrect and that the segment is much larger than the normal mtu. I like the idea of there being a few additional sanity checks, like I said, what I did there was a WAG :) So, adding a

Re: [tcpdump-workers] guessing when TSO is present

2006-04-07 Thread ronnie sahlberg
large segment offload (LSO) can be easily detected by TCP checksum==0and being incorrect and that the segment is much larger than the normal mtu. On 4/7/06, Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hannes Gredler wrote: > > checked in - thanks for the submission - /hannes > > > > On Wed, Ja

Re: [tcpdump-workers] guessing when TSO is present

2006-04-07 Thread Guy Harris
Hannes Gredler wrote: checked in - thanks for the submission - /hannes On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:35:13PM -0800, Rick Jones wrote: | A while back I think I posted something asking about what to do about TSO | (large send) and how it generated "IP bad-len 0" output when tracing on a | TSO-enab

Re: [tcpdump-workers] guessing when TSO is present

2005-01-22 Thread Hannes Gredler
checked in - thanks for the submission - /hannes On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:35:13PM -0800, Rick Jones wrote: | A while back I think I posted something asking about what to do about TSO | (large send) and how it generated "IP bad-len 0" output when tracing on a | TSO-enabled sender. | | I had a

Re: [tcpdump-workers] guessing when TSO is present

2005-01-20 Thread Rick Jones
Rick Jones wrote: A while back I think I posted something asking about what to do about TSO (large send) and how it generated "IP bad-len 0" output when tracing on a TSO-enabled sender. I've had acouple folks ask "What's TSO?" so... TSO == TCP Segmentation Offload. AKA "large send." A feature

[tcpdump-workers] guessing when TSO is present

2005-01-20 Thread Rick Jones
A while back I think I posted something asking about what to do about TSO (large send) and how it generated "IP bad-len 0" output when tracing on a TSO-enabled sender. I had a couple spare cycles, so I decided to just take a WAG at what might be done, which was to say that if the IP len was ze