Re: TCP checksum and device driver eri0

From: Casper Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 07/02/03

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    To: "Sporleder, Matthew (CCI-Atlanta)" <Matthew.Sporleder@cox.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 17:26:00 +0200

    >The eri0 interface and some other Solaris interfaces employ
    >hardware checksumming; as a result, packets with correct checksums
    >never exist in the kernel, they're generated in the hardware.

    IPsec will not send tcp packets with an incorrect checksum but
    the checksum will be generated by the kernel.

    Casper

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