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SubjectRe: [PATCH] netfilter: add CHECKSUM target
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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