Re: 2.6.9 NAT problem

[Giuliano Pochini]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Martin Josefsson wrote:

> > > Then try again and then check the kernellog by executing 'dmesg', see if
> > > it complains about bad checksums.
> >
> > Yes :(
>
> :( It seems there are silicon revisions of the apple sungem that produce
> broken checksums. This is what we were worried about, we'll probably
> submit a patch soon that removes the checksum checking,  then it'll
> behave more like < 2.6.9-pre1
>
> In the meantime you can use the patch below that simply comments that
> code out. It's not diffed against 2.6.9 but should apply anyway.

Yes, the patch works fine.
I don't know anything about the network code, but since this is an
hardware problem, IMHO the workaround should go into the sungem driver. I
don't think that ip_conntrack should know anithing about the underlying
hardware. Is it possible to disable hw checksum and to use a sw one ?


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Giuliano.
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