Control: reopen -1
On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 00:54 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:24:16AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > control: reassign -1 src:linux
> > # I believe this is the kernels fault, but
> > # I might be wrong...
> > thanks
> >
> > On Montag, 13. Januar 2014, michael wrote:
> > > Package: base
> > > Severity: normal
> > > Tags: upstream
> > >
> > > Dear Maintainer,
> > > * What led up to the situation?
> > > Checksum calcualtion for outgoing tcp packages had been moved from
> > > the kernel to the network interface card (ethX or wlanX).
> > > Thus when capturing data with tcpdump / Wireshark/ pcap invalid
> > > checksums occur. Thus it is no longer possible to determine which packages
> > > had invalid checksums and will be discarded.
> [...]
>
> Not a bug, won't fix.
Sorry, I didn't read this carefully enough.
Yes, you should be able to disable TX checksum offload and then see the
kernel-generated checksums in captured packets, and I don't know why
that isn't happening.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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