Subject: Re: kern/29971: Loopback checksum optimizations cause UDP problems
To: None <yamt@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/16/2005 17:57:01
The following reply was made to PR kern/29971; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, tech-net@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/29971: Loopback checksum optimizations cause UDP problems
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 10:56:13 -0700
On Apr 15, 2005, at 10:22 PM, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> if no one objects, i'll commit the attached patch.
>
> - for ipv4, defer the decision to ip layer as h/w checksum
> offloading does,
> so that it can check the actual interface the packet is going to.
> - for ipv6, don't bother to omit checksumming. maybe will be
> revisited when
> it implements h/w checksum offloading.
yah, this looks fine.
thx.
-- thorpej