[ovs-discuss] forwarding packets with wrong FCS

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 01:05:57PM +0100, Ferdinand wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> in my OVS installation it seems that packets with wrong FCS are not
> forwarded by OVS.  The output of ethtool shows
> 
> rx-fcs: off [fixed]
> rx-all: off [fixed]
> 
> which tells me, that forwarding of packets rising an FCS error is disabled
> and can't be enabled as the option is 'fixed'.

If your driver drops packets with wrong FCS, OVS has no way to override
that.