ip_input - chksum - why is it done so early in ip_input?

2004-01-16 Thread Sten Daniel Sørsdal
Apologies for the cross-post, i wasnt sure if this was hackers or net material. I've often wondered why ip checksumming is done on every incoming packet and not only on the packets that need to be delivered locally. It looks like a very expensive way of doing it, especially on high PPS.

RE: Ugly Huge BSD Monster

2003-09-02 Thread Sten Daniel Sørsdal
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:38:34PM -0700, Greg Shenaut wrote: Has it ever been suggested to create one or more dependencies ports (or more to the point, packages)? I think it might be pretty useful to have something like that so that all of the prerequisites can be installed at once.

RE: FreeBSD firewall for high profile hosts - waste of time ?

2003-01-17 Thread Sten Daniel Sørsdal
BGP or in same provider cases - OSPF. But yes, in my opinion, a FreeBSD firewall is worth using your time with. --- Med vennlig hilsen / Best regards Sten Daniel Sørsdal --- -Original Message- From: Josh