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Date:	Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:10:09 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu,
	jeff.chua.linux@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ole@....pl, cups-bugs@...ysw.com, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cups slow on linux-2.6.24

David Newall wrote:
> I'm not debating that checksums are wrong. The question was how and
> where? It's not as if there are any unreliable communication paths in a
> loopback interface, so it's surprising that they could be wrong. How? Where?
> 

As I said, loopback doesn't perform full checksum calculation.
Its simply an optimization, nothing to worry about ...

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