Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:49:20AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi:
> hi,
> 
> > > > i think you also need zero ui->ui_sum in the else {}, otherwise you could
> > > > just have garbage.
> > > 
> > > for what?
> > > in that case, the ui_sum should never used by anyone, afaik.
> > 
> > you still want it to "hit the wire" as zero don't you,
> 
> no.
> 
> > otherwise the receive
> > side (including things like tcpdump) thinks you're doing checksums.
> 
> can you explain why it's a problem?
> "receive side" should be ourselves.  it should know about checksum omission.

If the receiver is the kernel it is not a problem, but if the receiver is
a BPF or raw socket it can be.  Either of those may attempt to check the
UDP ckecksum (tcpdump does, for example).  A value of zero is a clear
indication not to check it for UDP.  It seems like little pain to be
"correct".

I do not know what could be done for IP or TCP checksums.  But, if I'm not
mistaken, zero is not a valid value for either and might be a good indicator
that no checksumming was performed.