Herbert Xu wrote:
> "Thomas B. R??cker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>     
>>> The packet passed to packet capture programs may not have a valid checksum
>>> if you have checksum offload configured on the device.  What kind of 
>>> hardware
>>> do you have on sender and receiver? 
>>>       
>> The c-snippet uses 127.x.x.x --> loopback
>>     
>
> We never compute the complete checksum for loopback so that explains
> the bogus checksum.
>   
Does this also explain why wireshark thinks the checksum is right when
tested on <=2.6.17?

Cheers

Thomas
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