Re: Why so many "TCPv4 bad checksum from .." logs??

Nigel Metheringham (Nigel.Metheringham@ThePLAnet.net)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 15:49:55 +0100

mlord@pobox.com said:
} Riccardo Facchetti wrote: > > There is another thing to say. During
} all my pppd sessions, I receive a > lot of "TCPv4 bad checksum from
} ..." messages. Of course all this packets > are discarded, but I would
} like to know why I receive so many checksum > errors. >

} Me too. I get tons of them, but everything still seems okay. This is
} with a 53000bps USR x2 V.Everything Courier modem.

Try turning off the vj header compression in the PPP daemon - apparently
some ISPs have modem sets which do this wrong!

[at least this was the sort of response that was coming on the masq list
for this sort of thing]

Nigel.

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