On 5/2/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk> wrote:
> On 02.05.06 01:48, Sketch wrote:
> > Running tcpdump on the hosts that squid is running on shows the bad
> > checksum on outgoing squid packets. This means that the problem is
> > not a network switch/hardware, as the packet is built in kernel space,
> > and then determined to be bad before it ever hits the network
> > interface.
>
> the packets are propbablby OK, but the kernel probably uses checksumming
> capability of your network card(s), as many cards support this and it takes
> some load off the CPU.
>
> This is probably not a problem at all.
Thanks to everyone who replied with Checksum offloading. Looks like
that's what is happening.
Received on Wed May 03 2006 - 02:58:31 MDT
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