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

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Message-ID: <20100411120403.GA20565@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:04:03 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, yinghai@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: ssh server etc doesn't work anymore with net-2.6

Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> 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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