On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 07:17:40PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> For those interested, I am dealing with a UDP app that already does very
> strong checksumming and encryption, so additional software checksumming
> at the lower layers is quite simply a waste of CPU cycles. Hardware
> checksumming is fine, as long as its "free."
No matter how strong your underlying checksumming is it's not
going to protect the IPv6 header is it :)
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