Re: Reproducable 2.1.95 checksum error

Erik Andersen (linker@nightshade.ml.org)
Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:17:12 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Meelis Roos wrote:

> > 2.0.32 to 2.0.32 works perfectly in the same setup.
>
> > When I check /proc/net/dev on both machines, only the 2.1.95 one
> > reports errors. Apparently all frames received by the 2.0.32 machine
> > are fine.
>
> 2.0 kernels simply don't log bad checksums. They only do it for
> masqueraded packets.
> 2.1 kernels log them.
>
> Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)

Isn't it against some RFC to log bad checksums? It certantly does no good
for logs.. I was under the impression that this was a debugging feature
that would go away with 2.2? Though it should perhaps stay as a
/proc/sysctl option..

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