27 Aug
2022
27 Aug
'22
10:16 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 12:00 PM Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
In some situations where a client machine is connected via some specific Optical Network Terminals (ONTs), and data is appended after the packet checksum, the network adapter can drop receive packets when using TCP-IPv6 Checksum Offload for receive traffic.
Hi Sean, Do you happen to have any details on the bug? I note that the IPv6 header DOES NOT HAVE a checksum; it relies on the checksum in the layer-2 frame. I'm not clear how you "append" bytes to the ethernet frame "after" calculating the checksum, have the hardware checksum fail but have the software checksum succeed. Regards, Bill Herrin -- For hire. https://bill.herrin.us/resume/