Subject: Re: hardware checksum with wm nics
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Charlie Allom <charlie@rubberduck.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/26/2007 12:11:43
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:23:01PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.0707241452410.19188@6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de>,
> 
> I think that if you enable checksums tcpdump does not know that they will
> be calculated by the nic for outgoing packets so you see the wrong checksum.
> We could fix tcpdump to look at the interface flags and DTRT but it does
> not seem worth-while.

How about a note in infconfig(8) near the *csum entries noting this?
having spammed this mailing list before, myself..

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