How do I enable GRO on a bond interface?

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Issue

  • How do I enable GRO on a bond interface?
  • If I use Generic Receive Offload for bonding, do I need to activate or disable it for the bond slave NICs too?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (kernel-2.6.32-431.el6) and all later minor and major releases
  • Bonding
  • Generic Receive Offload (GRO)

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