In article <[email protected]> (at Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:34:03 +0800), Herbert Xu <[email protected]> says:
> 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 :)
In that sense, we should use AH.
--yoshfuji
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