Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] When are payload lengths greater than the negotiated MSS?
From: Ashwin Rao <ashwin.shirvanthe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:56:48 +0100
> If TSO is the cause, you could see whether you can disable TSO on the
> loopback interface, somehow (and possibly get a reduction in
> throughput as a result).
>

Thanks a lot. I have confirmed that this behaviour was due to TSO.
Further, TSO can be enabled and disabled using the ethtool command.
For disabling the TSO on the loopback device one needs to execute (as
a user having the required privileges).
#> ethtool -K lo tso off