qeth.531375 <bus ID of the qeth device>: Hardware checksumming is performed only if <network interface name> and its peer use different OSA Express 3 ports

Explanation

Offloaded checksum calculations apply only to packets that go out to the LAN or come in from the LAN. Linux instances that share an OSA Express 3 port exchange packets directly. Packets transmitted through a shared port, and for which you have turned on hardware checksumming, are neither checksummed by the OSA adapter nor by Linux.

User response

To use hardware checksumming, ensure that the peers use separate ports. To use software checksumming in Linux instead, turn off hardware checksumming. If you can risk running without checksumming for your connection, ignore this message.

Severity

Warning