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Date:      Tue, 28 May 2002 18:00:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        cseg@storming.org
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bad TCP checksum
Message-ID:  <200205290100.g4T10MX89078@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020523081803.GA1730@torment.storming.org> "from Fred Souza at May 23, 2002 11:18:03 am"

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Fred Souza writes:
>   I'm experiencing something weird with my 4.6-RC box (compile of May 18).
>   What happens is that for some hosts it just won't calculate the
>   checksum properly, and thus my box is unable to start TCP connections
>   to those hosts. Here's a piece of the output of tcpdump:
> 
>   19:16:55.759657 me.50441 > somehost.http: S [bad tcp cksum fffe!]
>   2079216431:2079216431(0) win 65535 <mss 1452,nop,wscale 1,nop,nop,
>   timestamp 797082 0> (DF) [tos 0x10]  (ttl 96, id 41580, len 60)
> 
>   Additional info that might help: The default route goes through the
>   tun0 interface, my ADSL service uses PPPoE and therefore I cannot
>   think of any other way to work it out on FreeBSD. ppp(8) was compiled
>   in the same day as the kernel, and I tried unloading firewalling and
>   nothing different occured (at least apparently). NAT is disabled here.

Sounds like it might be the delayed checksum code. What Ethernet
device driver are you using?

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com

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