Re: tcpdump: invalid v6 UDP checksums

2014-01-27 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2014-01-26 11:27, Christian Weisgerber a écrit : Over IPv6, UDP packets must have a non-zero checksum (RFC2460, section 8.1). That is no longer true. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6935#section-5 VXLAN and friends use zero UDP checksums over IPv6. Simon

tcpdump: invalid v6 UDP checksums

2014-01-26 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Over IPv6, UDP packets must have a non-zero checksum (RFC2460, section 8.1). Currently, tcpdump ignores this and will print "udp sum ok". Maybe the author didn't understand how the Internet checksum works and thought the checksum calculation would catch this. OK? Any better phrasing than "invali