Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758028Ab0GIQgr (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:36:47 -0400 Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:39966 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754551Ab0GIQgp (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:36:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4C37501A.3070807@trash.net> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:36:42 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100621 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , "David S. Miller" , Alexey Kuznetsov , "Pekka Savola (ipv6)" , James Morris , Hideaki YOSHIFUJI , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, herbert.xu@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: add CHECKSUM target References: <20100708222913.GA4475@redhat.com> <4C373D90.8070000@trash.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 985 Lines: 25 Am 09.07.2010 18:26, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > > On Friday 2010-07-09 17:17, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> >>> This adds a `CHECKSUM' target, which can be used in the iptables mangle >>> table. >>> >>> You can use this target to compute and fill in the checksum in >>> an IP packet that lacks a checksum. This is particularly useful, >>> if you need to work around old applications such as dhcp clients, >>> that do not work well with checksum offloads, but don't want to >>> disable checksum offload in your device. >> >> I'm not sure this is something we want to merge upstream and >> support indefinitely. > > We could put it into Xtables-addons. That would also be consistent > with Dave's suggestion. Sure, that would be fine with me. -- 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/