Re: [PATCH] netfilter: add CHECKSUM target

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Friday 2010-07-09 17:17, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>> This adds a `CHECKSUM' target, which can be used in the iptables mangle
>> table.
>> 
>> You can use this target to compute and fill in the checksum in
>> an IP packet that lacks a checksum.  This is particularly useful,
>> if you need to work around old applications such as dhcp clients,
>> that do not work well with checksum offloads, but don't want to
>> disable checksum offload in your device.
>
>I'm not sure this is something we want to merge upstream and
>support indefinitely.

We could put it into Xtables-addons. That would also be consistent
with Dave's suggestion.

>Dave suggested this as a temporary
>out-of-tree workaround until the majority of guest dhcp clients
>are fixed. Has anything changed that makes this course of
>action impractical?
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