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Re: IPv6-UDP 0x0000 checksum

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On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 14:49 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

> Oops, sorry - receive. We can only indicate "CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY",
> nothing more advanced right now, but right now we'd indicate that if
> the packet had 0x0000 in the checksum field, but should've had 0xffff.
> 
> On TX I believe we actually do in HW exactly what your patch just did.

Can you describe the visible effects of this problem ?

Is that because of a conversion we might do later to CHECKSUM_COMPLETE ?





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