CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS_OFFLOAD

Offload Socket APIs [EXPERIMENTAL]

Type: bool

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Enables direct offloading of socket operations to dedicated TCP/IP
hardware.
This feature is intended to save resources by bypassing the Zephyr
TCP/IP stack in the case where there is only one network interface
required in the system, providing full BSD socket offload capability.
As a result, it bypasses any potential IP routing that Zephyr might
provide between multiple network interfaces.
See NET_OFFLOAD for a more deeply integrated approach which offloads
from the net_context() API within the Zephyr IP stack.

Direct dependencies

NET_SOCKETS && NETWORKING

(Includes any dependencies from ifs and menus.)

Defaults

No defaults. Implicitly defaults to n.

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Kconfig definition

At <Zephyr>/subsys/net/lib/sockets/Kconfig:155

Included via <Zephyr>/Kconfig:8<Zephyr>/Kconfig.zephyr:44<Zephyr>/subsys/Kconfig:39<Zephyr>/subsys/net/Kconfig:87<Zephyr>/subsys/net/lib/Kconfig:30

Menu path: (Top) → Sub Systems and OS Services → Networking → Link layer and IP networking support → Network Libraries → BSD Sockets compatible API

config NET_SOCKETS_OFFLOAD
    bool "Offload Socket APIs [EXPERIMENTAL]"
    select EXPERIMENTAL
    depends on NET_SOCKETS && NETWORKING
    help
      Enables direct offloading of socket operations to dedicated TCP/IP
      hardware.
      This feature is intended to save resources by bypassing the Zephyr
      TCP/IP stack in the case where there is only one network interface
      required in the system, providing full BSD socket offload capability.
      As a result, it bypasses any potential IP routing that Zephyr might
      provide between multiple network interfaces.
      See NET_OFFLOAD for a more deeply integrated approach which offloads
      from the net_context() API within the Zephyr IP stack.

(The ‘depends on’ condition includes propagated dependencies from ifs and menus.)