Limitations of $ETHTOOL_OPTS for setting bxn2 TOE flags

[Matthias Saou]

Brian A. Seklecki wrote :

> -- Since I'm stuck running RHEL on a handful of my 9th gens, I figured I might 
> as well go through the motions with the vendors on this feature request / 
> bug report into Redhat.
> 
> How are you guys passing flags to "/sbin/ethtool -K" to flip the offload 
> switches on your bxn2 eths?  Hopefully something more graceful than 
> /etc/rc.local
> 
> I'm stuck patching / rewriting /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth for now 
> I suppose.

I saw the same "limitations" in initscripts/ethtool and settled for the
ugly rc.local solution, myself. Modifying initscripts would be a much
better solution, but if it doesn't get into an official RHEL update,
there's always the risk to get an updated RHEL package update your
locally modified one... and run into trouble.

That said, if you're ever able to get the RHEL5 initscripts changed in
a way that allows for "ethtool -K" to be configured in the ifcfg-eth*
file, then I'll definitely start using it :-)

Matthias

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