Re: SO_NO_CHECK socket option

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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:

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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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