Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:34:03 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] SO_NO_CHECK for IPv6 |
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 07:17:40PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > For those interested, I am dealing with a UDP app that already does very > strong checksumming and encryption, so additional software checksumming > at the lower layers is quite simply a waste of CPU cycles. Hardware > checksumming is fine, as long as its "free."
No matter how strong your underlying checksumming is it's not going to protect the IPv6 header is it :)
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