Re: [PATCH 3.2 085/115] veth: don???t modify ip_summed; doing so treats packets with bad checksums as good.

From: David Miller
Date: Fri May 13 2016 - 14:21:31 EST


From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 09:57:19 -0700

> How do you feel about a new socket-option to allow a socket to
> request the old veth behaviour?

I depend upon the opinions of the experts who work upstream on and
maintain these components, since it is an area I am not so familiar
with.

Generally speaking asking me directly for opinions on matters like
this isn't the way to go, in fact I kind of find it irritating. It
can't all be on me.