From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 16:28:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2823116A53B; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:28:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rrs@cisco.com) Received: from sj-iport-4.cisco.com (sj-iport-4.cisco.com [171.68.10.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FA843CB5; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:28:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rrs@cisco.com) Received: from sj-dkim-6.cisco.com ([171.68.10.81]) by sj-iport-4.cisco.com with ESMTP; 17 Dec 2006 08:28:07 -0800 Received: from sj-core-3.cisco.com (sj-core-3.cisco.com [171.68.223.137]) by sj-dkim-6.cisco.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kBHGS797027153; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:28:07 -0800 Received: from xbh-sjc-221.amer.cisco.com (xbh-sjc-221.cisco.com [128.107.191.63]) by sj-core-3.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id kBHGS7A4001064; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:28:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from xfe-sjc-212.amer.cisco.com ([171.70.151.187]) by xbh-sjc-221.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:28:07 -0800 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([171.68.225.134]) by xfe-sjc-212.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:28:06 -0800 Message-ID: <45856FE6.6040901@cisco.com> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:27:18 -0500 From: Randall Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gnn@freebsd.org References: <5628d8010612160452y5c562757h8ef8ed0776c5525d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Dec 2006 16:28:06.0905 (UTC) FILETIME=[553D8690:01C721F8] DKIM-Signature: v=0.5; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; l=1050; t=1166372887; x=1167236887; c=relaxed/simple; s=sjdkim6002; h=Content-Type:From:Subject:Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version; d=cisco.com; i=rrs@cisco.com; z=From:=20Randall=20Stewart=20 |Subject:=20Re=3A=20UDP=20lite=20for=20FreeBSD |Sender:=20; bh=4A2904xgnDL2QvDtwnn4c8UIzumUIK2YlnTvIY/ZbcY=; b=I9JtE2pdCGKgjrsel34JurU4FLg+d4sPmJFVwIWwsO8Xj0vMSUoZpdchcsLiXTDW/ssSkuka 5wgmd+LuFg7Ncz72IXm7EajGtT0QxfPNCxrG+47yRE4T+jXe/x6Z6hU4; Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-6; header.From=rrs@cisco.com; dkim=pass (sig from cisco.com/sjdkim6002 verified; ); Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, dave jones Subject: Re: UDP lite for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:28:45 -0000 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 803-317-4952 (cell)