Kmod-nft-offload <720p 2025>

In the world of high-speed networking, especially with gigabit fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), the bottleneck is rarely the internet connection itself—it is often the router trying to process all that traffic. When running modern firewall systems like (used by default in modern OpenWrt), the CPU can become overwhelmed, leading to high latency and lower throughput.

config defaults option input 'ACCEPT' option output 'ACCEPT' option forward 'REJECT' option flow_offloading '1' # Enables software flow offloading option flow_offloading_hw '1' # Enables hardware flow offloading

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Benefits:

After applying the rules, you can verify that the offload is active by listing the flowtables: In the world of high-speed networking, especially with

Report bugs or send patches to the GitHub issue tracker. Tested on Mellanox ConnectX-5 / ARM DPU – other platforms welcome.

chain forward type filter hook forward priority filter + 1; policy accept; ip protocol tcp, udp flow add @f accept This link or copies made by others cannot be deleted

Implementing kmod-nft-offload yields tangible performance gains, particularly in the following scenarios:

CONFIG_DEFAULT_kmod-nft-offload=y CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-nft-offload=y