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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:46:21 +0900 (JST) From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org> To: herbert@...dor.apana.org.au Cc: jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SO_NO_CHECK for IPv6 In article <20071122023403.GA3409@...dor.apana.org.au> (at Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:34:03 +0800), Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> says: > 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 :) In that sense, we should use AH. --yoshfuji - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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