On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 02:27:51PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> writes:
> > Or on the other hand, how many people (besides Perry) would actually
> > enable checksumming on hosts doing gatewaying for packets being forwarded
> > given the pros and cons as discussed to date ?
> 
> It's also needed for debugging. One might find circumstances that
> cause it to be important...

So make it a compile-time option.  Doing the check of whether to do the
checksum is likely to be at least as expensive as doing the checksum;
people should be able to select to do neither, which is handled just
fine with a config file options and a few #ifdefs.

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Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
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