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Subject: [Bug 214793] New: Missing mention of automatic ICMPv6 checksum calculation when using raw sockets
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 19:51:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-214793-11311@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/> (raw)
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214793
Bug ID: 214793
Summary: Missing mention of automatic ICMPv6 checksum
calculation when using raw sockets
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: low
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
Assignee: documentation_man-pages@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
Reporter: xrucky01@stud.fit.vutbr.cz
Regression: No
There is no mention of the fact that a socket of type AF_INET6 with protocol
IPPROTO_ICMPV6 performs automatic calculation of the ICMPv6 checksum field when
data is sent on the socket. This is distinct from how IPv4 ICMP sockets work.
As the ipv6 man page says that "the IPv6 API aims to be mostly compatible with
the IPv4 API. Only differences are described in this man page." I do believe
that the mention of the different behaviour should appear at least somewhere in
the man pages. Notably the ip and raw man pages.
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