TOE adapters in ESX, and VM NIC settings

[kellino]

We are using TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) adapters in our ESX3 servers.

I noticed that inside a Windows VM there are several options for the VMWare Accelerated AMD PCNet NIC including:

TCP/IP Offload : Off (Default)

Does this need to be enabled inside each VM in order to take advantage of the TOE capabilities of our NIC's?

Thanks!

[specVM]

Is this "enhance vmxnet" thing only a feature of ESX/ESXi?

I am currently running Server 1.0.3.

I do have ESXi update 3, but have not migrated to it yet.

[RenaudL]

Yes, AFAIK, Enhanced Vmxnet is only present on ESX.