From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@netcore.fi>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
netfilter@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, herbert.xu@redhat.com,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: add CHECKSUM target
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:36:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C37501A.3070807@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1007091824520.1835@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
Am 09.07.2010 18:26, schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
>
> On Friday 2010-07-09 17:17, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>
>>> This adds a `CHECKSUM' target, which can be used in the iptables mangle
>>> table.
>>>
>>> You can use this target to compute and fill in the checksum in
>>> an IP packet that lacks a checksum. This is particularly useful,
>>> if you need to work around old applications such as dhcp clients,
>>> that do not work well with checksum offloads, but don't want to
>>> disable checksum offload in your device.
>>
>> I'm not sure this is something we want to merge upstream and
>> support indefinitely.
>
> We could put it into Xtables-addons. That would also be consistent
> with Dave's suggestion.
Sure, that would be fine with me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-09 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-08 22:29 [PATCH] netfilter: add CHECKSUM target Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-08 22:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-08 22:35 ` [PATCH] extensions: libipt_CHECKSUM extension Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-08 22:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-08 22:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-08 22:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-08 22:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-09 7:18 ` [PATCH] netfilter: add CHECKSUM target Herbert Xu
2010-07-09 7:18 ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-11 9:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-11 10:24 ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-11 10:24 ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-09 9:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-07-11 12:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-11 12:45 ` Changli Gao
2010-07-11 13:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-11 12:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-07-11 13:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-09 15:17 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-07-09 16:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-07-09 16:36 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2010-07-11 10:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-15 15:17 ` Patrick McHardy
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2010-07-08 22:29 Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-08 22:29 Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-08 22:29 Michael S. Tsirkin
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