netdev - Re: Bad checksum on bridge with IP options

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Message-ID: <20140512135141.GA13945@breakpoint.cc>
Date:	Mon, 12 May 2014 15:51:41 +0200
From:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
Cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bad checksum on bridge with IP options

David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com> wrote:
> I've got a patch which fixes the faulty checksums, and now ping
> works with RR or TS set.  I'm not quite sure, though, that it fixes
> the right thing.  I wonder if the problem is less that the checksum
> becomes wrong, and more that the route and timestamps ought not to
> be changed by the bridge interface.

Agree, bridge should not alter ip options.
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