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Re: MPLS patches



On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:32:25PM +0200, Mihai Chelaru wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> >
> >If possible make it work without the additional hard-wired case for
> >disabling HW cksumming.
> 
> Will a NIC compute cksum for a packet that isn't IP from ethertype of 
> view ? I admit I'm clueless regarding HW checksumming chapter.

Probably not. But note that some deal properly with vlan header prepended,
so they migh in theory deal with the MPLS header too. 

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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