| To: | Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| 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 -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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