Subject: Re: What's happening here? (NFS)
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 03/17/2005 19:14:28
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:22:45PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Just a "me too".. Also on ex0, with h/w csumming enabled:
>
> 17:16:13.805723 IP (tos 0x10, ttl 64, id 41336, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 52, bad cksum 0 (->f8f0)!) 131.111.204.180.65215 > 131.111.204.183.22: . [bad tcp cksum a071 (->38f)!] ack 2560 win 33580 <nop,nop,timestamp 4600 4600>
>
>
> lots of packets with bad cksum..
>
> However, with h/w checksums turned off, all OK according to tcpdump.
> (Running current/i386 of yesterday)
I think this is to be expected when using hardware checksum: in this case,
as the checksum will be computed by the adapter, the packet passed to BPF
didn't have the checksum updated.
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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