Configuring the transmit checksum offload feature

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 LPAR mode z/VM guest

The qeth device driver supports offloading outbound (transmit) checksum calculations to the OSA feature.

About this task

You can enable or disable the OSA feature that calculates the transmit checksums by using the ethtool command.

Issue a command of the form:

# ethtool -K <interface_name> tx <value>

where <value> is on or off.

To let the OSA feature calculate the transmit checksum for network device encf500, issue
```
# ethtool -K encf500 tx on
```
To let the host CPU calculate the transmit checksum for network device encf500, issue
```
# ethtool -K encf500 tx off
```