On Friday 2010-07-09 17:17, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> This adds a `CHECKSUM' target, which can be used in the iptables mangle >> table. >> >> You can use this target to compute and fill in the checksum in >> an IP packet that lacks a checksum. This is particularly useful, >> if you need to work around old applications such as dhcp clients, >> that do not work well with checksum offloads, but don't want to >> disable checksum offload in your device. > >I'm not sure this is something we want to merge upstream and >support indefinitely. We could put it into Xtables-addons. That would also be consistent with Dave's suggestion. >Dave suggested this as a temporary >out-of-tree workaround until the majority of guest dhcp clients >are fixed. Has anything changed that makes this course of >action impractical? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
