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From: Pavel Mores <pvl@uh.cz>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] checksum update in TCP
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:35:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-104305899012461@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-104305763511093@msgid-missing>

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:23:16AM +0100, devik wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> anyone knows when TCP checksum is updated ?

Normally, TCP checksum is not supposed to be changed (or even read)
at all during transfer (see rfc793 or TCP/IP Illustrated Vol.1).

If NAT is in use then it needs to be accounted for, of course, because
TCP chksum involves a pseudoheader which contains both source and
destination addresses - but this is not the case, as you say.

> On other side if it simply passes packet thru (because nothing
> except TTL is changed and TTL is not part of TCP checksum) then
> the checksum should really ensure that nothing is changed
> between sender and reciever and if data are invalid then error
> would be on sender's or reciever's side.

Or imho even more probably, the problem could be the line.  I've had a
couple of these during last 3 years.  Namely, is there a serial line
(possibly wireless) involved?

	pvl

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-20 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-20  9:23 [LARTC] checksum update in TCP devik
2003-01-20 10:35 ` Pavel Mores [this message]
2003-01-20 11:09 ` Patrick McHardy
2003-01-20 11:19 ` Patrick McHardy
2003-01-20 14:09 ` devik
2003-01-21 11:58 ` Pavel Mores
2003-01-21 13:59 ` devik
2003-01-22 23:24 ` Pavel Mores
2003-01-23  7:31 ` devik

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