Re: Are "skb->data" physically continuous?

[Nick Patavalis (npat@inaccessnetworks.com)]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:10:24AM -0700, Bluesea wrote:
> 
> --- Nick Patavalis <npat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What I'm not sure about is whether the kernel or the
> > hardware does the
> > IP-header checksum calculation
> 
> The kernel calculate IP-header checksum in both Rx and
> Tx path.

Yep, you're right. So it is: The kenel allways calculates the
IP-header checksum, regardless of whether checksum offloading is
supported by the device or not.

/npat

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