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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:21:01 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: christophe@...ut.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Fixing up TCP/UDP checksum for UDP encap. ESP4 packets
in transport mode
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:18:45AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:02:35PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > Indeed, there is no way to handle checksums sanely. The whole
> > end-to-end protection of the checksum would be entirely subverted
> > if we fixed it up.
Oh and if we were going to fix it up, it'd make much more sense
as an explicit netfilter target so people know what they're
getting themselves into.
Cheers,
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