Re: [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness

Rusty Russell
2008-08-25T04:01:25Z

On Wednesday 20 August 2008 01:05:55 Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 07:10:44PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > We need both. CSUM2 is the new virtio-level feature.
>
> Perhaps that's what I'm misisng. How is this different to CSUM?

Because current guests which say they can handle CSUM can't *really* handle
it. That's the entire point. We need a new one, so that existing guests
don't ack it (because they don't understand it), and new guests can ack it
later.

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.