SKaREO
05-30-2007, 11:32 PM
TCP checksum offloading will not offer you very much performance wise since it is so cheap to calculate it with the CPU. TCP checksum offloading is dangerous for data however since it means that you will send your packets across the least reliable component of your computer (the pci bus) and without tcp checksum calculated by the stack you will not detect bits being flipped/corrupted by the pci bus and thus data might be corrupted.