Hello Johannes,

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Johannes Stezenbach [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

according to RFC 768 the UDP checksum is optional, and
indeed the kernel has support for the SO_NO_CHECK socket
option (boolean: 0 == default, calculate checksum on xmit,
1 == do not calculate checksum on xmit).

Maybe you would like to add this to socket(7).

In the source of the socket.7 man page, there is a comment:

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One of the coauthors of this page was Andi Kleen, and I suspect he
wrote the comment


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