On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, mohanlal jangir wrote: > > I am reading a socket using SOCK_PACKET, the > > driver strips off the checksum from the packet , > If driver is stripping off and not implementing CHECKSUM_HW, I think you > can't get it. Some drivers implements CHECKSUM_HW and store the checksum in > skb->csum before stripping. I am not sure if you can get that in user space. > By the way, why you want to read this checksum in user space. This checksum > is frame checksum and ensures packet has not been corrupted between > transmission and reception. And that has been varified. Sorry Guys the driver gives checksum to the user space, i just needed the checksum for my testing purpose :-) Bye, -- Krishna P -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
