Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270933AbTG0Wwp (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:52:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270967AbTG0Wwp (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:52:45 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:65009 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270933AbTG0Wwo (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:52:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:26:20 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Doruk Fisek Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hw tcp v4 csum failed Message-Id: <20030727152620.5efa995d.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20030727100246.4bfb860c.dfisek@fisek.com.tr> References: <20030727100246.4bfb860c.dfisek@fisek.com.tr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 868 Lines: 27 On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:02:46 +0300 Doruk Fisek wrote: > Hi, > > I am getting "hw tcp v4 csum failed" errors using a BCM5701 ethernet > adapter with the tigon3 driver in a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel. > > There seems to be no apparent problem (probably because of low-load). > > What can be the cause of these errors? Nothing need to be done. They are usually happening because of one of two things: 1) The other host computed an incorrect checksum. 2) Something between the foreign host and your's corrupted the packet. Both of which are normal events and so you can ignore the message safely. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/