Re: af_packet & CHECKSUM_HW

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:

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?

That this functionality does not belong in the kernel, as it serves no
real purpose.


- James
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James Morris
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