RE: Entirely ignoring TCP and UDP checksum in kernel level

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sat Aug 21 2004 - 03:28:12 EST


On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 05:18, Josan Kadett wrote:
> That is not much of an intelligible idea. A way to hack the kernel could be
> found as I still presume. "Turn off checksums" but not by re-writing the
> whole tcp code in the kernel. Isn't that possible ? Linux is an operating
> system of infinite possibilities, right ? But only if you know how to hack
> it...
>

Can't you just go into the networking code, and find the part where it
checks the checksum, and just have it return success, even if the
checksum was bad? Seems like a quick copy and paste hack. Am I missing
something?

Lee


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/