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Add USO (UDP Segmentation Offloading) to offloading options
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Description

Currently VyOS 2026.03 offers these offloading options:

vyos@vyos# set interfaces ethernet eth0 offload 
Possible completions:
   gro                  Enable Generic Receive Offload
   gso                  Enable Generic Segmentation Offload
   hw-tc-offload        Enable Hardware Flow Offload
   lro                  Enable Large Receive Offload
   rfs                  Enable Receive Flow Steering
   rps                  Enable Receive Packet Steering
   sg                   Enable Scatter-Gather
   tso                  Enable TCP Segmentation Offloading

Request to add UDP Segmentation Offloading (uso) to the list of available offloading options.

Available through ethtool as tx-udp-segmentation:

root@vyos:/home/vyos# ethtool -k eth0 | grep -i tx-udp-segmentation
tx-udp-segmentation: off

Details

Version
2026.03
Is it a breaking change?
Unspecified (possibly destroys the router)
Issue type
Feature (new functionality)