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 :) Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
