Subject: Re: Skipping TCP / UDP / IP checksums on loopback traffic
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/23/2004 11:49:16
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On Oct 23, 2004, at 11:43 AM, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:

> isn't it enough to (ab)use h/w checksum offloading flags?

I thought about that... But that currently doesn't work for the case of 
an IP packet needing to be fragmented, and also does not currently work 
for IPv6.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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