From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275000AbTHFNIS (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:08:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274997AbTHFNIS (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:08:18 -0400 Received: from 34.mufa.noln.chcgil24.dsl.att.net ([12.100.181.34]:58866 "EHLO tabby.cats.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275011AbTHFNIP (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:08:15 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Jesse Pollard To: "David S. Miller" , Lincoln Dale Subject: Re: TOE brain dump Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 08:07:37 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: andre@linux-ide.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, werner@almesberger.net, niv@us.ibm.com References: <3F2CAE61.7070401@pobox.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20030806181359.02bf9570@mira-sjcm-3.cisco.com> <20030806012218.4012d9e4.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20030806012218.4012d9e4.davem@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <03080608073701.08387@tabby> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 06 August 2003 03:22, David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 18:20:06 +1000 > > Lincoln Dale wrote: > > secondly, why would a router or switch even be touching the data at > > layer-4 (TCP), let alone recalculating a CRC? > > To make sure emails about Falun Gong and other undesirable topics > don't make it into China. Thats not a router, or switch... It's a firewall :-)