Re: TCP bad checksum to localhost

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
13 Oct 1999 14:46:53 +0200


linux@billabong.demon.co.uk (John Hayward-Warburton) writes:

> Hi,
>
> This error appears when I make a TCP connection to `localhost' as
> 127.0.0.1:
>
> TCPv4 bad checksum from 192.168.7.1:803c to 127.0.0.1:0017, len=20/40
>
> Kernel 2.3.21, gcc-2.95.1, binutils snapshot from 991012. Other TCP
> connections to and from outside hosts work fine.

Looks like someone (netfilter?) is changing skb->ip_summed from
CHECKSUM_UNECESSARY to something else.

-Andi

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