9.6 Troubleshooting Traffic-forwarding Workloads

In some scenarios, the replica of a workload that is forwarding network traffic (for example, if the workload’s purpose is to serve as a network bridge for NAT, VPN, or a firewall) might show significant network performance degradation. This is related to a problem with VMXNET 2 and VMXNET 3 adapters that have LRO (large receive offload) enabled.

To work around this issue, you need to disable LRO on the virtual network adapter. For more information, see Knowledgebase Article 7005495.