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Re: 4.0.1 NAT checksum failure?



On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:13:43 -0400 (EDT)
der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote:

> Can anyone confirm or refute the theory that 4.0.1's NAT simply doesn't
> get checksums right for addresses on alias networks in this sense?
> I'll be digging through the code, but I don't know that code, and
> strengthening or refuting my guess would help me focus my search.

It's not exactly clear to me which is inbound and outbound in the
example (it's also late in my tz, admitedly), but is it possible
that because hardware TCP4 checksum is enabled the dumps don't report
it properly yet output packets get the sum adjusted at actual delivery?

Thanks,
-- 
Matt


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