On 10/16/07, Yanping Du <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > We found the standard 16-bit tcp checksum is not > strong enough in some cases. Is there any roadmap on > implementing RFC1146 (tcp alternative checksum > options) in Linux tcp stack ? If yes, how soon will > that be in ? > > Please kindly copy reply to my email address as I've > not subscribed the netdev@ mailing list at present. > > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1146.html > > Thanks! > -Yanping > > Yanping,
The way that features get added to Linux is that someone interested writes it. You can't just say - is this on the roadmap, as there is no roadmap really! I have been interested in network features from an academic point of view and so I wrote what I needed (along with others) and that was added to the Linux kernel. So have a go at implementing it if you consider it important and come back here with some patches. Then others will help review it until the patches are good. I will let others comment on whether the checksums are a good idea or not. Ian -- Web1: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Web2: http://www.jandi.co.nz Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
