Bill Sommerfeld wrote: >On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:01 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: > > >>>I still believe that a much better solution would be to offer drivers a >>>way to "Punt" on a packet. >>> >>> > >Absolutely. Define a function they can call to finish the checksum in >the event they have a hardware limitation that prevents the use of >checksum offload on a particular packet. > >
On a vaguely related note, it might be an interesting exercise to make IP assume that *all* NICs provide checksum offload support and to put the checksum'ing of IP packets into the mac/dls layer. Darren _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
