Subject: Re: hardware checksum busted for Sun NICs
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/01/2007 10:30:55
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 01:19:54 -0700
jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) wrote:
>
> Hmm, if you consider this to be important then you can't do
> hardware checksum. The other option is to simply ignore it since a
> UDP checksum of 0x0000 won't (generally) cause bad things to happen.
Except for things like undetected NFS and DNS bad data...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb