Re: [RFC/PATCH] SO_NO_CHECK for IPv6

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Nov 21 2007 - 13:35:44 EST


From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:45:32 -0500

>
> SO_NO_CHECK support for IPv6 appeared to be missing. This is presented,
> based on a reading of net/ipv4/udp.c.
>
> I wonder if IPv4's CHECKSUM_PARTIAL check from udp_push_pending_frames()
> also needs to be copied to IPv6?
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxx>

IPV6 specifies that, unlike ipv4, this no-checksum behavior
is not allowed.
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