Should TCP Checksum Offloading(TCO) be enabled on VMWare guest systems using RHEL?
Issue
- Should TCP Checksum Offloading be enabled on the VMware host and guests?
- Should TCO be disabled on the VMware host and guests, thereby allowing the OS to do it?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- VMware Network module/driver vmxnet3
- VMware ESXi hypervisor
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