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SubjectRe: Mark Russinovich's reponse Was: [OT] Comments to WinNT Mag !! (fwd)
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> Could someone please clue me in on how this works? I don't understand
> how we can do zero copy without hardware checksumming... and in the

You can't

> cases we do, surely the overhead of twiddling this hardware is
> comparable to copying 1500 bytes of data? (For HIPPI I can see it

Actually you generally get it for free. IP checksum silicon isnt hard


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