| To: | James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: af_packet & CHECKSUM_HW |
| From: | Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 17 Nov 2003 07:51:46 +1100 |
| Cc: | netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:44:38AM -0500, James Morris wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > 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. OK, I will quote you on that :) -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt |
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