Re: [RRG] The use of UDP in LISP

["Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>]

Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com>
> In IPv4 UDP checksums are optional, but not in IPv6.

That's because IPv4 has its own header checksum and IPv6 doesn't.  The work 
for IPv6 with a UDP checksum is no worse than for IPv4 without a UDP 
checksum.  IIRC, that was intentional.

There's reasons to debate UDP encapsulation, e.g. load balancing, but 
checksum costs is not one of them.

S

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