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mininet.link.TCULink Class Reference

TCLink with default settings optimized for UserSwitch (txo=rxo=0/False). More...

Inheritance diagram for mininet.link.TCULink:
mininet.link.TCLink mininet.link.Link

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def __init__ (self, *args, **kwargs)
 

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Detailed Description

TCLink with default settings optimized for UserSwitch (txo=rxo=0/False).

Unfortunately with recent Linux kernels, enabling TX and RX checksum offload on veth pairs doesn't work well with

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UserSwitcheither it gets terrible performance or TCP packets with bad checksums are generated, forwarded, and dropped due to having bad checksums! OVS and LinuxBridge seem to cope with this somehow, but it is likely to be an issue with many software Ethernet bridges.

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