Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 07:45:05 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: zero-copy TCP |
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On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:46:15PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
You are perfectly at liberty to send invalidly checksummed packets. Its a design decision. The remote simply discards the frame
Not only that -- from outside the box it's often impossible to tell why a certain packet has a broken checksum; it might be software, hardware a stray event or interference for the Redmond Mind Control Rays.
Right now; bad checksums occur on most networks[1] fairly often anyhow; I guess Ingo was trying to say that we should make efforts not to increase this number if at all possible?
--cw
[1] Well, reasonable sized networks. I guess it goes O(n) with the number of hosts in the absence of something really broken. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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