Re: pppoe and receive checksum offload

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:59:06 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Someone reported a problem with skge hardware receive checksumming and PPPOE
> but it looks like a generic problem.  Since PPPOE adds additional header
> bytes the hardware computed checksum will be wrong.  
> 
> Not sure if this is correct, but shouldn't pppoe be doing the following:

Changing or expanding the link level headers should only mess
up the hw checksum if you are using CHECKSUM_HW, is that what
your skge driver is using?