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Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, dave jones <s.dave.jones@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: UDP lite for FreeBSD
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At Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:27:18 -0500,
randall wrote:
> 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 :-)

Ah, OK, makes sense.

So, Dave, if you're up for working on it I can review patches against
HEAD, as can others.  I guess I need to add yet another RFC to my
incredibly long reading list.

Later,
George