From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Pollard Subject: Re: TOE brain dump Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 08:07:37 -0500 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <03080608073701.08387@tabby> References: <3F2CAE61.7070401@pobox.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20030806181359.02bf9570@mira-sjcm-3.cisco.com> <20030806012218.4012d9e4.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: andre@linux-ide.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, werner@almesberger.net, niv@us.ibm.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" , Lincoln Dale In-Reply-To: <20030806012218.4012d9e4.davem@redhat.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 06 August 2003 03:22, David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 18:20:06 +1000 > > Lincoln Dale wrote: > > secondly, why would a router or switch even be touching the data at > > layer-4 (TCP), let alone recalculating a CRC? > > To make sure emails about Falun Gong and other undesirable topics > don't make it into China. Thats not a router, or switch... It's a firewall :-)