Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:27:18 -0500 From: Randall Stewart <rrs@cisco.com> To: gnn@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, dave jones <s.dave.jones@gmail.com> Subject: Re: UDP lite for FreeBSD Message-ID: <45856FE6.6040901@cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <m2fybf2t59.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> References: <5628d8010612160452y5c562757h8ef8ed0776c5525d@mail.gmail.com> <m2fybf2t59.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
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gnn@freebsd.org wrote: > At Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:52:10 +0800, > dave jones wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Is anyone working on implementing UDP lite in FreeBSD? If not, >>I'd like to work on it. > > > Hi, > > Can you give us more context on this UDP lite thing? Is this an > RFC/IETF thing or??? > > Thanks, > George > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > George: It allows you to do a partial checksum on a udp packet.. the idea behind it is for when we have link layers that can delivered damaged packets we can then feed the packets to media players.. that can still use the data.. even though damaged.. I believe the there are a couple of codecs that are of this venue... at one time I even knew a name or two.. but that was a while ago :-) R -- Randall Stewart NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc. 803-345-0369 <or> 803-317-4952 (cell)
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