netdev - Re: [RFC/PATCH] SO_NO

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Message-ID: <20071121134258.GA30883@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:42:58 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SO_NO_CHECK for IPv6

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:20:51PM +0000, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
> In article <20071121124532.GA17263@...oc.gtf.org> (at Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:45:32 -0500), Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> says:
> 
> > 
> > SO_NO_CHECK support for IPv6 appeared to be missing. This is presented,
> > based on a reading of net/ipv4/udp.c.
> 
> Disagree. UDP checksum is mandatory in IPv6.

Right, IPv6 doesn't have a header checksum so the UDP checksum
must be there.

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