Re: TCP checksum and device driver eri0

Casper Dik <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Jul 2003 17:26:00 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.security.sun
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

>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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