Cathy Zhou writes: > > But adding this bit can provide completeness, it can be used by GLDv3 > drivers (as requested by several person involved in the discussion), and a > legacy driver can choose to support HW checksum for VLANs if it would like > to. But I would think the latter requires the change of the legacy driver, > so that I don't know how likely it is.
To clarify, I didn't actually request it unless something was planning to assume that drivers w/o VLAN support are "dumb" and can't do checksums on VLAN frames. This is not true in most cases. I was mainly griping about this behavior in other OSes, and commenting on how nice it was that GLDv3 didn't make this mistake. I agree with Garrett, and I think that a software checksum "escape" mechanism might be more generally useful. Drew _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
