Hello, On 8 January 2013 15:01, Martijn Lievaart <930...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> Hi Michal, > > I don't quite understand what you are saying here. Are you saying that > because Linux has a kernel interface to check for offloading, any and > all application (that cares about udp checksums) should use this? It Yes, reading several discussion about this issue it seems that application that wants to work correctly on Linux has to do this. This issue pops up on actual hardware with actual hardware checksum offloading reportedly. > would seem much simpler if the virtio driver zero'd the checksum field, > any application already should be able to handle that. No Linux specific > code needed. Except virtio would have to do the work then. Also it does not solve the issue for other hardware with offloading. Also does the zero checksum not change the meaning of the message? It would seem that setting the checksum to zero in driver and application ignoring the offload status would imply interpretation that the sender did not include any checksum at all whereas the correct interpretation would be that the checksum was verified and stripped by network hardware. Thanks Michal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930962 Title: dhcp3-server reports many bad udp checksums to syslog using virtio NIC To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/isc-dhcp/+bug/930962/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
