linux-kernel - Re: cups slow on linux-2.6.24

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:12:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	davidn@...idnewall.com
Subject: Re: cups slow on linux-2.6.24

From: David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:17:14 +1030

> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> >> Strange, but there are a lot of incorrect checksum packets. How does
> >> it come on the loopback interface?
> >
> > Loopback doesn't perform full checksumming, so thats expected.
> 
> The question remains: How do loopback packets get incorrect checksum? 
> Where and how can they get corrupted?

There are zeros there, which is an incorrect checksum most
of the time.

Tcpdump is just not knowledgable about this and tries to
validate the checksum as if it were computed correctly.
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