The -k flag dumps protocol offloads such as checksumming, TCP segmentation, and generic receive offload, each shown as on, off, or fixed. Offloads move work from the CPU into the NIC, but broken drivers can corrupt traffic, and toggling them with ethtool -K is a classic packet-capture fix.
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