Re: UDP lite for FreeBSD

2006-12-22 Thread Randall Stewart
Fernando: comments in-line.. Fernando Gont wrote: At 10:26 19/12/2006, Randall Stewart wrote: I have always thought of it as a bit of a hack as well... and there is one really big problem with it.. It has no value unless you can tell your network-interface card to deliver damaged packets. I d

Re: UDP lite for FreeBSD

2006-12-21 Thread Fernando Gont
At 10:26 19/12/2006, Randall Stewart wrote: I have always thought of it as a bit of a hack as well... and there is one really big problem with it.. It has no value unless you can tell your network-interface card to deliver damaged packets. I don't know if some cards have this option now or not..

Re: UDP lite for FreeBSD

2006-12-19 Thread Randall Stewart
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: dave jones wrote: Hi, Is anyone working on implementing UDP lite in FreeBSD? If not, I'd like to work on it. Nope. I just skimmed the RFC and it sounds like a bit of a hack, though I am sure it can be done cleanly in the source tree without unnecessary code duplicat

Re: UDP lite for FreeBSD

2006-12-18 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
dave jones wrote: Hi, Is anyone working on implementing UDP lite in FreeBSD? If not, I'd like to work on it. Nope. I just skimmed the RFC and it sounds like a bit of a hack, though I am sure it can be done cleanly in the source tree without unnecessary code duplication or interference at the u

Re: UDP lite for FreeBSD

2006-12-17 Thread gnn
At Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:27:18 -0500, randall wrote: > It allows you to do a partial checksum on a udp packet.. the idea > behind it is for when we have link layers that can delivered damaged > packets we can then feed the packets to media players.. that can > still use the data.. even though damaged

Re: UDP lite for FreeBSD

2006-12-17 Thread Randall Stewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:52:10 +0800, dave jones wrote: Hi, Is anyone working on implementing UDP lite in FreeBSD? If not, I'd like to work on it. Hi, Can you give us more context on this UDP lite thing? Is this an RFC/IETF thing or??? Thanks, George __

Re: UDP lite for FreeBSD

2006-12-17 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:52:10 +0800, dave jones wrote: Is anyone working on implementing UDP lite in FreeBSD? If not, I'd like to work on it. Can you give us more context on this UDP lite thing? Is this an RFC/IETF thing or??? ftp://ftp.rfc-edi

Re: UDP lite for FreeBSD

2006-12-17 Thread gnn
At Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:52:10 +0800, dave jones wrote: > > Hi, > > Is anyone working on implementing UDP lite in FreeBSD? If not, > I'd like to work on it. Hi, Can you give us more context on this UDP lite thing? Is this an RFC/IETF thing or??? Thanks, George __