Re: TCPv4 bad checksum in 2.1.131-ac8/9/10

Paul Flinders (paul@dawa.demon.co.uk)
18 Dec 1998 20:32:33 +0000


Paul Flinders <paul@dawa.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Is anyone else seeing bad checksums in recent kernels?
>
> I get a slew of
>
> TCPv4 bad checksum from 194.217.242.34:c1da to 194.222.0.39:0019, len=x/x/x+20
>
> when I pick up my mail (194.217.242.34 is one of my ISP mail machines).
> Oddly I only see it to port 25 on my machine (I've just ftped the ac11
> patches and a few other things with no problems) and I don't seem to have
> lost any data so I'm wondering if it's a hardware problem but I've only
> noticed it in the last 2 days (since I installed ac 8 or 9)

At the moment the working theory is that this is a problem with my ISP
(I see them when connected to Ascend kit but not 3Com)

The only kernel change was to make them visible.

Sorry for kicking up a fuss.

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