On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Tom Herbert wrote:
> I would also note RFC7348 specifies:
>
> UDP Checksum: It SHOULD be transmitted as zero. ...
>
> The RFC doesn't provide any rationale as to why this is a SHOULD
> (neither is there any discussion as to whether this pertains to IPv6
> which ha
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> This change makes it so that if UDP CSUM is not specified we will default
> to enabling it. The main motivation behind this is the fact that with the
> use of outer checksum we can greatly improve the performance for VXLAN
> tunnels on de
This change makes it so that if UDP CSUM is not specified we will default
to enabling it. The main motivation behind this is the fact that with the
use of outer checksum we can greatly improve the performance for VXLAN
tunnels on devices that don't know how to parse tunnel headers.
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