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List:       kvm
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness
From:       Rusty Russell <rusty () rustcorp ! com ! au>
Date:       2008-08-25 4:01:17
Message-ID: 200808251401.18209.rusty () rustcorp ! com ! au
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On Wednesday 20 August 2008 01:05:55 Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 07:10:44PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > We need both.  CSUM2 is the new virtio-level feature.
>
> Perhaps that's what I'm misisng.  How is this different to CSUM?

Because current guests which say they can handle CSUM can't *really* handle 
it.  That's the entire point.  We need a new one, so that existing guests 
don't ack it (because they don't understand it), and new guests can ack it 
later.

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.
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