RE: TCP speed

[Michael Krause <krause@cup.hp.com>]

At 11:55 AM 9/12/00 -0700, Fred Baker wrote:
>At 12:12 PM 9/11/00 -0500, Greg Joyce wrote:
>>Once you build that on top of UDP, you'll have something very TCP-like
>>without the benefit of years of tuning and refinement. I think you'd also
>>find that the performance was comparable.
>
>the difference will no doubt be that UDP has an optional checksum, while 
>TCP requires its checksum to be used. If you have a hardware checksum 
>generator, as has been suggested, mox nix.

I believe everyone implements UDP checksum and it may now be 
required.  Most NICs implement checksum off-load for UDP and TCP so this 
isn't an issue from a performance point of view.

Mike