Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275907AbTHOLLy (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:11:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275908AbTHOLLx (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:11:53 -0400 Received: from 015.atlasinternet.net ([212.9.93.15]:2500 "EHLO antoli.gallimedina.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275905AbTHOLLu (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:11:50 -0400 From: Ricardo Galli Organization: UIB To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.0: Bad udp checksum in loopback interface Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:11:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308151311.48831.gallir@uib.es> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1633 Lines: 46 tcpdump -v shows bad udp checksum in the loopback interface. But I'm not sure if the packets is discarded or the error is ignored. ponti:~# tcpdump -i lo -n -v ponti:~# dig @192.168.0.3 gallimedina.net 13:02:12.360728 192.168.0.3.32827 > 192.168.0.3.53: [bad udp cksum 5e6d!] 35220+ A? gallimedina.net. (33) (DF) [ttl 0] (id 0, len 61) 13:02:12.364470 192.168.0.3.53 > 192.168.0.3.32827: 35220* 1/1/1 gallimedina.net. A 192.168.0.10 (85) (DF) [ttl 0] (id 12492, len 113) ponti:~# dig @127.0.0.1 gallimedina.net 13:03:53.299883 127.0.0.1.32827 > 127.0.0.1.53: [bad udp cksum 167d!] 32901+ A? gallimedina.net. (33) (DF) [ttl 0] (id 0, len 61) 13:03:53.303448 127.0.0.1.53 > 127.0.0.1.32827: 32901* 1/1/1 gallimedina.net. A 192.168.0.10 (85) (DF) [ttl 0] (id 7725, len 113) This machine has a bridge, but I also tried in another one with netcat (nc -l -u localhost -p 2000 and nc -u localhost 2000) antoli:~# tcpdump -i lo -n -v tcpdump: listening on lo 13:09:04.125385 127.0.0.1.32890 > 127.0.0.1.2000: [bad udp cksum 5a0!] udp 14 (DF) [ttl 0] (id 32006, len 42) 13:09:12.472940 127.0.0.1.2000 > 127.0.0.1.32890: [bad udp cksum 837!] udp 7 (DF) [ttl 0] (id 34086, len 35) I saw the short message does arrive to the listening netcat, but tcpdump still gives the bad udp error message. Regards, -- ricardo galli GPG id C8114D34 http://mnm.uib.es/~gallir/ - 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/