Subject: Re: UDP Lite?
To: Ali Khayam <ali_khayam@yahoo.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/29/2001 00:40:45
Ali Khayam <ali_khayam@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Of course it can. It is totally trivial. None of
> > this need be done in
> > the kernel, or at the UDP layer.
> 
> which means over-burdening the application layer.

Inserting two bytes is an overburden? Come on. You don't even need the
header checksum in the first place, but if you want it is burdensome
to insert two bytes and check them later? That's ridiculous.

.pm