Hello Johannes, On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Johannes Stezenbach <js@xxxxxxxxx> 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: [[ ]] One of the coauthors of this page was Andi Kleen, and I suspect he wrote the comment -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html