Re: zero-copy TCP

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 14:46:15 EST


> i think it's a quality of implementation issue. The csum_copy_generic
> thing is a bug. Allowing incorrect checksums to be sent out would be a
> design bug. I think some RFCs do even forbid the sending of incorrect
> packets?

You are perfectly at liberty to send invalidly checksummed packets. Its
a design decision. The remote simply discards the frame

Alan

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