Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:36:42 +0200 | From | Patrick McHardy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] netfilter: add CHECKSUM target |
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Am 09.07.2010 18:26, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > > On Friday 2010-07-09 17:17, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> >>> This adds a `CHECKSUM' target, which can be used in the iptables mangle >>> table. >>> >>> You can use this target to compute and fill in the checksum in >>> an IP packet that lacks a checksum. This is particularly useful, >>> if you need to work around old applications such as dhcp clients, >>> that do not work well with checksum offloads, but don't want to >>> disable checksum offload in your device. >> >> I'm not sure this is something we want to merge upstream and >> support indefinitely. > > We could put it into Xtables-addons. That would also be consistent > with Dave's suggestion.
Sure, that would be fine with me.
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