Re: TCP-MD5 checksum failure on x86_64 SMP

Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07T08:55:13Z

Le vendredi 07 mai 2010 à 11:46 +0300, Lars Eggert a écrit :
> On 2010-5-6, at 15:06, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > This code should be completely rewritten for linux-2.6.35, its very ugly
> > and over complex, yet it is not scalable.
>
> Let me quickly point out that the IETF has recently replaced TCP-MD5 with TCP-AO (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-auth-opt-11) which is days or weeks away from being published as an RFC. (The draft has been approved and it waiting for the RFC Editor to finish the final copy-editing.)
>
> You'll obviously still want TCP-MD5 support for talking to existing equipment, but significant cycles would IMO be better spent on TCP-AO.
>

Thanks for this info !