impossible packet length ...

[Robert Watson]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Danny Braniss wrote:

> looking at the bce source, it's not clear (to me :-). If errors are detected 
> in bce_rx_intr(), the packet gets dropped, which I would expect to be the 
> treatment of an offloded chekcum error, but it seems that is not the case.

I think we're thinking of different checksums -- devices/device drivers drop 
frames with bad ethernet checksums, but not IP and above layer checksums.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge