Do the Broadcom Gigabit drivers support TOE on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) is not included in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution and will not be supported for the reasons listed below. Additionally, TOE has not been accepted in upstream kernel and will most likely not be included in future distributions.

TOE in general has more downsides than advantages:

  1. Latency increases, which means that for lots of stuff, ...

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