User`s guide

Chapter XII. Offload IPv6 driver
Chelsio T5/T4 Unified Wire For Linux Page 181
1. Introduction
The growth of the Internet has created a need for more addresses than are possible with IPv4.
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a version of the Internet Protocol (IP) designed to succeed
the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4).
Chelsio’s Offload IPv6 feature provides support to fully offload IPv6 traffic to the T5/T4 adapter.
1.1. Hardware Requirements
1.1.1. Supported Adapters
The following are the currently shipping Chelsio Adapters that are compatible with Chelsio
Offload IPv6 feature:
T520-LL-CR
T520-CR
T580-LP-CR
T540-CR
T420-CR
T440-CR
T422-CR
T420-SO-CR
T404-BT
T420-BCH
T440-LP-CR
T420-BT
T420-LL-CR
T420-CX
1.2. Software Requirements
1.2.1. Linux Requirements
Currently the Offload IPv6 feature is available for the following versions:
Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 update 7 kernel (RHEL5.7), 2.6.18-274.el5
Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 update 8 kernel (RHEL5.8), 2.6.18-308.el5
Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 update 3 kernel (RHEL6.3), 2.6.32-279.el6
Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 update 4 kernel (RHEL6.4), 2.6.32-358.el6
Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 kernel (SLES11SP1), 2.6.32.12-0.7
Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 kernel (SLES11SP2), 3.0.13-0.27
Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 kernel (SLES11SP3), 3.0.76-0.11
Ubuntu 12.04, 3.2.0-23