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From: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 17:24:55 +0000

> The context here was transmit, not receive; the stack muxes
> encapsulation layers and then asks the hardware to fill in one
> checksum, it doesn't have any way to fill in 'adjusted' checksums in
> other layers.  The following paragraph (which you snipped) was
> discussing ways to get this kind of adjusted checksumming on
> transmit, by feeding the adjustments to the hardware.

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See Tom's reply re: TX.