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From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: UDP lite for FreeBSD
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dave jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone working on implementing UDP lite in FreeBSD? If not,
> I'd like to work on it.
Nope. I just skimmed the RFC and it sounds like a bit of a hack, though 
I am sure it can be done cleanly in the source tree without unnecessary 
code duplication or interference at the user-kernel boundary.

I look forward to seeing patches for this. It would be interesting to 
see if hardware checksum offloading can be taught to do it, cleanly, 
though I imagine that is something much further down the line.

Regards,
BMS