Re: zero-copy TCP fileserving

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 21:01:56 +0200

On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 01:34:09PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> I heard that at one time Sun didn't bother to checksum packets that
> arrived via Ethernet. I don't know if it's true. Of course without

SunOS 4.x had UDP packet checksums disabled at boot to improve NFS
performance. Hey, who cares about DNS?

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson


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