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SubjectRe: Deactivating TCP checksumming
Dennis Cook wrote:
> Based on various feedback, on my RH Linux 2.4.18 kernel I tried the
> following:
>
> Set "features" bit NETIF_F_IP_CSUM set (the only feature bit set).
> In my network driver start-transmit check for "CHECKSUM_HW" in ip_summed.
> Using a small test program, use "sendfile" to copy a file to a network
> socket FD.
> Result is none of the packets presented to my network adapter driver have
> ip_summed set to CHECKSUM_HW, so the SW IP stack has already
> computed checksums.

CHECKSUM_HW is for receive, not transmit. Read the comments at the top
of include/linux/skbuff.h.


> Is this mechanism possibly broken on kernel 2.4?


it works quite well.

Jeff


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