Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:46:21 +0900 (JST) | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] SO_NO_CHECK for IPv6 | From | YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <> |
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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.
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