thunderbolt-net-dkms
Out-of-tree Linux thunderbolt_net driver (DKMS) tracking upstream, with a receive-side workaround for macOS Thunderbolt Bridge TCP aggregates: validated GSO reconstruction bounded by each flow's learned path MTU. Fixes extremely slow Mac-to-Linux uploads with TSO on, including Linux bridge and Proxmox forwarding.
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Details
- External ID
- 1410570756
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- thunderbolt-net-dkms
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30
- Tags
- —
Enrichment
- Niche
- open-source LLM inference and deployment
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- dkms kernel module for slow macos thunderbolt bridge uploads to linux
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is a Linux kernel module (DKMS) modifying low-level TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) and networking behavior in the kernel driver layer.
What it would actually take: Requires C development within the Linux kernel networking subsystem (`net/core` and kernel driver code), patch generation, and DKMS packaging. The developer must understand kernel sk_buff structures, NIC offloading mechanics (TSO/GSO), and low-level Thunderbolt transport bugs across Linux and macOS bridges.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #102 of 133 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 344 days after the earliest competitor.
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