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SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH] SO_NO_CHECK for IPv6
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In article <20071122023403.GA3409@gondor.apana.org.au> (at Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:34:03 +0800), Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.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
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