The shell code to do this might look like this:
if which ethtool >/dev/null 2>&1; then
for ethif in `ifconfig -a | grep ^eth | cut -d' ' -f1`; do
ethtool -K $ethif tso on >/dev/null 2>&1
done
fi
The VMware backend may present the fast networking device as an AMD vlance device instead of the actual vmxnet device.
This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).