From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [IPX]: Fix checksum computation.
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:21:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031031142131.07176dd7.shemminger@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031031135328.2a997f6a.davem@redhat.com>
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:53:28 -0800
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:50:04 -0800
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> > Was an old NG Sniffer being used to verify this?
> > Sniffer had a long term problem with IPX checksums.
>
> No, Arnaldo would verify the checksum by running the
> old code and the new code, they produced different
> checksums on every sendmsg() call.
>
> He then tested it further by making sure he could use
> netatalk successfully between a 2.4.x Linux appletalk
> box and a 2.6.x system with the checksum patch applied.
> Without the patch the 2.4.x system would reject all packets
> sent by the 2.6.x box.
>
Actually, the before the "optimization" went in I did testing between
old 2.4.x and 2.6.x as well as standalone comparisons. The problem is
a compiler screwup, that probably isn't worth investigating further.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-31 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200310312006.h9VK62Hh005910@hera.kernel.org>
2003-10-31 21:24 ` [IPX]: Fix checksum computation Joe Perches
2003-10-31 21:23 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-31 21:34 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-10-31 21:50 ` Joe Perches
2003-10-31 21:53 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-31 22:21 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2003-10-31 22:46 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-11-01 0:25 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-31 21:56 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-10-31 23:29 ` Mark Huth
2003-11-01 0:31 ` Joe Perches
2003-11-01 0:31 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-31 21:31 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-11-01 0:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-11-01 1:13 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-11-01 1:19 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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