Checksumming outgoing packets in PF vs in ip[6]_output

Ermal Luçi eri at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 14 08:17:50 UTC 2014


Yes confirmed it will solve that issue as well.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:30 PM, J David <j.david.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Ilya Bakulin <ilya at bakulin.de> wrote:
> > Of course it was interesting what does the upstream PF do (@ OpenBSD).
> Seems
> > they have made the decision to
> > leave the task of recalculating the checksums for outgoing packets to
> > ip[6]_output, because currently
> > the code there overwrites the checksum anyway.
> > This seems a correct way to me. pf should not longer do any checksum
> updates
> > in inbound and outbound path.
>
> Is there any chance this change would help with bug 179392 as well?
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179392
>
> Or is that a separate issue?
>
> Thanks!
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Ermal


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