Re: Entirely ignoring TCP and UDP checksum in kernel level

[Brad Campbell]

Josan Kadett wrote:
> **Indeed there is no longer such a need to recalculate the IP checksum
> because I have found a way to disable it by patching the kernel. So, only
> requirement is this;
>
> Change the source address of the packet before it reaches to the socket
> buffer aka skbuff.h. Because if it reaches that code with the wrong IP
> header, the csum will just drop it away.

The main reason I suggested correcting the checksum is if it was done that way, the kernel would 
behave normally for all other IP traffic and simply do a dodgy on only traffic from 192.168.1.1

If nobody else jumps in, let me think about it for a day or so and I'll see what I can do. It's been 
a couple of years since I last looked at the network code though.

What kernel are you running?

Regards,
Brad
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