Activate TSO support on the network adapter of a Linux virtual machine so that the guest operating system redirects TCP packets that need segmentation to the VMkernel.
Prerequisites
- Verify that ESXi supports the Linux guest operating system.
See the VMware Compatibility Guide documentation.
- Verify that the network adapter on the Linux virtual machine is VMXNET2 or VMXNET3.
Procedure
- ♦ In a terminal window on the Linux guest operating system, to activate or deactivate TSO, run the ethtool command with the -K and tso options.
- To activate TSO, run the following command:
ethtool -K ethY tso on
- To deactivate TSO, run the following command:
ethtool -K ethY tso off
where Y in ethY is the sequence number of the NIC in the virtual machine.
- To activate TSO, run the following command: