netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] vxlan: Follow kernel defaults for outer UDP checksum.

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Message-ID: <20160327110149.2799135f@xeon-e3>
Date:	Sun, 27 Mar 2016 11:01:49 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] vxlan: Follow kernel defaults for outer
 UDP checksum.

On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:51:08 -0700
Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org> wrote:

> On recent kernels, UDP checksum computation has become more efficient and
> the default behavior was changed, however, the ip command overrides this
> by always specifying a particular behavior.
> 
> If the user does not specify that UDP checksums should either be computed
> or not then we don't need to send an explicit netlink message - the kernel
> can just use its default behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org>
> ---

Applied both, thanks