Re: IPv4 checksum errors

Philip Gladstone (philip@raptor.com)
Mon, 08 Dec 1997 08:34:59 -0500


Ricky Beam wrote:
> Could be, but there _is_ a bug somewhere in the Linux networking code. I
> ran some rather difficult tests to see what was happening... The IP header
> is ok. The actual TCP data is ok. However, the IP header does not belong
> to that data segment. And, it's not the network card as I've used several
> different cards from several manufacturers on different machines.

We also have been seeing this recently. Our suspicion is that it is a
router somewhere in the PSI network swapping IP headers. We see TCP
headers
inside IP headers with protocol=udp.

Philip

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