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SubjectRe: [PATCH] lro: IP fragment checking
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On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 16:53 -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
> > From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
> > Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:50:15 -0500
> >
> >> As to whether or not to do it in the drivers/hardware or in the
> >> LRO code, I favor doing it in the LRO code just so that it is not
> >> missed in some driver.
> >
> > Then there is no point in the hardware doing the check, if
> > we're going to check it anyways.
> >
> > That's part of my point about why this check doesn't belong
> > here.
>
> What hardware does an explicit check for fragmentation?

Any that implements TCP/UDP checksumming properly.

> In most cases, aren't we just relying on the hardware checksum
> to be wrong on fragmented packets? That works 99.999% of the time,
> but the TCP checksum is pretty weak, and it is possible to
> have a fragmented packet where the first fragment has the same
> checksum as the entire packet.
[...]

If your hardware/firmware wrongly claims to be able to verify the
TCP/UDP checksum for an IP fragment, it seems to me you should deal with
that in your driver or fix the firmware.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
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