Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-34,: Re: PROBLEM: can't ping odd size packets in linux 2.2

# Re: PROBLEM: can't ping odd size packets in linux 2.2

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:26 +0200 (MEST)

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Andreas Schwab wrote:

> > > Hmm, I have no problem pinging with an odd size.

Rogier Wolff writes:

> > Neither do I, but I remember having upgraded ping the last time this
> > surfaced on Linux-kernel. Maybe I'm mis-remembering things. Sorry.

Forever shall I be. wrote:

> The problem was with the checksum code, IIRC..

Ah. Now I remember: the old ping calculates the checksum incorrectly,
so the machine who is supposed to reply discards the ping-packet
without responding, if it correctly verifies the checksum before
replying.

Roger.

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