On 2007-12-15, at 19:00, ext Tony Li wrote:
On Dec 14, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
By the way: host NICs routinely handle IPv4 IP and TCP/UDP
checksumming. I suggest router vendors start adding the same logic
to their hardware, and in a somewhat more general way so that IPv6
can also be supported, with additional headers between the IP and
TCP/UDP headers when present. This will avoid similar issues in the
future.
Done, circa 1998.
OK, now I'm confused. If router NICs already do checksumming, what is
the issue?
Lars
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