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Help needed disabling TCP/UDP checksum offloading in Debian

Hi Guys,

I'm running the latest, fully patched release of debian virtualized on VMWare ESXi.

Unfortuantely my ESXi server is a whitebox, and I'm using a NIC that's not on the ESXi 'supported hardware' list.

As a result of this, I can't get any connectivity inside of my Guest OSes until I disable TCP/UDP checksum offloading on the network adapter from within the Guest OSes. In windows, this is easily accomplished by right click > properties on the NIC inside of device manager.

How can I do it on a Debian system with no X?

TIA!

you may just need an exorbitant amount of coffee :D

Okay all fixed:

The followign two commands switched off all types of offloading.

Code:

$ ethtool --offload  eth0  rx off  tx off

$ ethtool -K eth0 gso off

Here is the output of ethtool before disabling TCO:

Code:

$ ethtool --show-offload  eth0

Offload parameters for eth0:

rx-checksumming: on

tx-checksumming: on

scatter-gather: on

tcp-segmentation-offload: on

udp-fragmentation-offload: off

generic-segmentation-offload: on

generic-receive-offload: off

large-receive-offload: off

ntuple-filters: off

receive-hashing: off

Here it is after running aforementioned commands:

Code:

$ ethtool --show-offload  eth0

Offload parameters for eth0:

rx-checksumming: off

tx-checksumming: off

scatter-gather: off

tcp-segmentation-offload: off

udp-fragmentation-offload: off

generic-segmentation-offload: off

generic-receive-offload: off

large-receive-offload: off

ntuple-filters: off

receive-hashing: off

Thanks for the help! Hope this helps someone in the future.

The error I was getting was in PuTTY, I use my server to tunnel traffic. I was getting an error stating "packet garbled on receive" or similar, and the connection would close itself. I will report back if this hasn't fixed the issue.

Okay all good now, only thing is when I reboot the box the checksumming turns back on and ruins everything - how to make the settings stick on reboot?