Hi, On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 3:04 PM Ondrej Zajicek <santi...@crfreenet.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 07:44:34PM +0200, Alexander Zubkov via Bird-users > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Nobody has done it yet, so I've tried to implement it. The patch is > > attached. Of course feel free to alter naming, wording, add credits > > for the reported, etc. as you wish. > > Hello > > Thanks for the patch, will merge it. > > Seems to me (from cursory look at the kernel code, as it seems to be an > undocumented option) that the socket option UDP_NO_CHECK6_RX does not > disable UDP checksum verification in general, just allows to accept UDP > packets with zero checksum, while UDP packets with invalid non-zero > checksums would still be rejected. Which fits better to what we need for > this.
I've grepped the kernel source and I agree, it seems to only accept zero checksums. Then maybe some phrases need to be reworded and the configuration option to be renamed? > > -- > Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > > Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org) > "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
