[Olsr-dev] Feedback on current OL

[Henning Rogge]

Am Montag 09 Juni 2008 05:24:31 schrieben Sie:
> The wireshark output was showing some UDP checksum errors "maybe caused
> by UDP checkum offload" on some olsr hello packets. Perhaps if anyone
> else is using this branch they could confirm whether they are also
> getting the errors or if it is something specific with my equipment.
This error is normal on "localhost" interfaces because linux don't calculate 
the checksum in this case, but I never heared about it on ethernet 
interfaces.

Olsrd only use layer 4 packages, it can neither read nor modify the checksum 
of an UDP package.

Henning


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