From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Stezenbach Subject: SO_NO_CHECK socket option Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:49:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20100820174917.GA18018@sig21.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Michael Kerrisk Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi, according to RFC 768 the UDP checksum is optional, and indeed the kernel has support for the SO_NO_CHECK socket option (boolean: 0 == default, calculate checksum on xmit, 1 == do not calculate checksum on xmit). Maybe you would like to add this to socket(7). Thanks Johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html