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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Checksumming Issues
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:13:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311212113.hALLDlj29642@agate.rockstone.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D8FBABA1EF6F2E4DBCC88903F60691F3021BD935@houxchsvr.ucscorp.ucs.pvt>

On Friday 21 November 2003 9:00 pm, Hildebrand, Brian wrote:

> www.netfor2.com/tcpsum.htm
>
> That is the first website I found. I'm sure if you look some more you could
> probably find about 500 more. If you do not follow those instructions, you
> will get bad checksum returns. Just because it is an OSI layer higher does
> not mean it can't include data from lower down the chain.

You are right.   The TCP checksum contains a "notional IP header" which is 
included in the calculation.

Today is not a good day for me :(   It must be somebody else's birthday.

Antony.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-21 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-21 21:00 Checksumming Issues Hildebrand, Brian
2003-11-21 21:13 ` Antony Stone [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-21 21:31 Hildebrand, Brian
2003-11-21 20:42 Hildebrand, Brian
2003-11-21 20:47 ` Antony Stone
2003-11-21 20:56   ` Leonid Veytser
2003-11-11 22:55 NF_QUEUE target and ip_queue.c Leonid Veytser
2003-11-21 20:15 ` Checksumming Issues Leonid Veytser
2003-11-21 20:27   ` Antony Stone

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