Kacheong Poon wrote:
> 
> For example, suppose we want to use the TCP MD5 option.  I
> think it will work nicely with MDT.  But I don't know if there
> is (or ever will be?) a hardware out there doing LSO which can
> fill in the MD5 option value.  As another example, MDT can
> support the ECN nonce in RFC 3168 nicely.  I doubt that there
> is a hardware out there doing LSO that can do ECN nonce.
> 

Who says it's only h/w that implements LSO? It's perfectly reasonable to 
do the fragmentation in s/w; it still buys a lot of peformance.

   Paul
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