On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:10:19PM +0000, my_ovs_disc...@yahoo.com wrote: > Using openvswitch-2.5.0, user-space mode with Linux 2.6 based kernels.IGMP > packets from NIC driver are handed over to Linux stack using netif_rx(). > openvswitch is picking packets from net_device using netlink. > As this path bypasses Linux kernel's IP stack, Linux kernel isn't validating > IP checksum. > Looks like, when packet enters vswitchd, it doesn't seem to validate IP > header checksum for the IGMP packets and > is directly delivering them to mcast-snoop module. > Is this a deliberate one to skip validating IP header checksum for IGMP > packets in this scenario or I am missing something here. > -Thanks >
That could be considered a bug. Thanks for the report. Thadeu Cascardo. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
