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Re: af_packet & CHECKSUM_HW

To: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: af_packet & CHECKSUM_HW
From: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 08:44:38 -0500 (EST)
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20031115024434.GA12276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> Should the packet socket compute the checksums of CHECKSUM_HW packets
> before sending them to userspace?
> 
> In other words, what do I tell confused users who see bad checksums
> in the tcpdump output over loopback and interfaces capable of
> hardware checksums?

That this functionality does not belong in the kernel, as it serves no
real purpose.


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>



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