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Subject: af_packet & CHECKSUM_HW
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:44:34 +1100
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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?

Cheers,
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