On 5/2/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
