Re: 3c59x 2.4.18 userspace seeing UDP packets with bad checksum?

[bert hubert <ahu@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:09:13AM -0400, Donald Becker wrote:

> > We fixed the bug already :-) Signed/unsigned arithmetic problems.
> 
> Were the arithmetic problems in your code, or the kernels checksumming?
> (The latter seems unlikely.)

We fixed *our* bug. I would never want to rely on checksums for input
validation :-) Our code should handle everything people care to throw at it
and I think that right now, it will.

> This is a good time to fix your application data validity checking.

Has been done. Watch freshmeat for the update :-)

Regards,

bert

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