Re: ssh server etc doesn't work anymore with net-2.6

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sun Apr 11 2010 - 08:04:22 EST


Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> After looking at the actual net-2.6 tree I see that it is actually
> CHECKSUM_PARTIAL that caused this breakage.
>
> The fact that when this was first implemented we didn't use hw
> checksums on dataless packets might not have been an oversight
> after all.

Looks like I was too quick to blame the hardware, the synack
code can't handle CHECKSUM_PARTIAL so this is probably the real
cause.

I will send patches to fix this.

Cheers,
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