The latest development version of this page may be more current than this released 2.1.0 version.
CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS_OFFLOAD

Offload Socket APIs [EXPERIMENTAL]

Type: bool

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.

Direct dependencies

NET_SOCKETS && NETWORKING

(Includes any dependencies from ifs and menus.)

Defaults

No defaults. Implicitly defaults to n.

Symbols selected by this symbol

Symbols that select this symbol

Kconfig definition

At subsys/net/lib/sockets/Kconfig:102

Included via Kconfig:8 → Kconfig.zephyr:41 → subsys/Kconfig:22 → subsys/net/Kconfig:82 → subsys/net/lib/Kconfig:28

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

config NET_SOCKETS_OFFLOAD
    bool "Offload Socket APIs [EXPERIMENTAL]"
    select NET_SOCKETS_POSIX_NAMES
    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.)