netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 3/5] net: vxlan: enable local checksum offload

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:36:56 -0800
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@....com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org>
Cc:	Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com, Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 3/5] net: vxlan: enable local checksum offload

On 01/08/2016 01:22 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>  and we don't require the remote end to validate the outer checksum.

Doesn't the UDP specification require validating a non-zero checksum on 
receipt?

rick jones