From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: lars.eggert@nokia.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, bhaskie@gmail.com, shemminger@vyatta.com,
bhutchings@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP-MD5 checksum failure on x86_64 SMP
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 02:12:51 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100507.021251.146344534.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70125082-4A0B-4E54-A7F6-B6CDC0375E78@nokia.com>
From: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 11:46:40 +0300
> You'll obviously still want TCP-MD5 support for talking to existing
> equipment, but significant cycles would IMO be better spent on
> TCP-AO.
Code we have and users use which is unstable and crashes is more
important to work on and fix than code we don't have which
user's therefore don't use.
You're wrong from just about every possible angle.
Whoever finds AO useful will work on it, just as was the case with MD5
support. And right now, that "whoever" is definitely not us. :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-07 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-05-04 3:30 ` TCP-MD5 checksum failure on x86_64 SMP Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-04 11:32 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-05-04 14:28 ` Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-04 16:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-04 17:08 ` Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-04 17:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-05 18:03 ` Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-05 18:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-06 11:55 ` Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-06 12:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 5:04 ` David Miller
2010-05-07 5:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 17:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-07 17:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 17:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-07 21:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-10 14:55 ` Bijay Singh
2010-05-10 15:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-10 17:27 ` Bijay Singh
2010-05-11 4:08 ` Bijay Singh
2010-05-11 6:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-11 8:23 ` Bijay Singh
2010-05-11 20:50 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-12 3:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-12 22:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-12 22:24 ` David Miller
2010-05-16 19:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-16 20:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-17 3:49 ` Bijay Singh
2010-05-17 5:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-17 17:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-17 20:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-17 21:04 ` [PATCH] tcp: tcp_synack_options() fix Eric Dumazet
2010-05-18 5:35 ` David Miller
2010-05-16 7:30 ` TCP-MD5 checksum failure on x86_64 SMP David Miller
2010-05-07 8:46 ` Lars Eggert
2010-05-07 8:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 9:12 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-05-07 5:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 8:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 8:59 ` Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-07 9:37 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 10:50 ` Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-07 15:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 15:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 21:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-16 7:37 ` David Miller
2010-05-16 7:35 ` David Miller
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