David Miller wrote: > From: David Newall <davidn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:17:14 +1030 > > >> Patrick McHardy wrote: >> >>> Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote: >>> >>>> Strange, but there are a lot of incorrect checksum packets. How does >>>> it come on the loopback interface? >>>> >>> Loopback doesn't perform full checksumming, so thats expected. >>> >> The question remains: How do loopback packets get incorrect checksum? >> Where and how can they get corrupted? >> > > There are zeros there, which is an incorrect checksum most > of the time. > I'm not debating that checksums are wrong. The question was how and where? It's not as if there are any unreliable communication paths in a loopback interface, so it's surprising that they could be wrong. How? Where? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
