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authorobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>2006-06-20 05:04:05 +0000
committerobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>2006-06-20 05:04:05 +0000
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Document that 'bad cksum 0' is expected on NICs with checksum off-loading.
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@@ -2257,6 +2257,13 @@ patches@tcpdump.org
NIT doesn't let you watch your own outbound traffic, BPF will.
We recommend that you use the latter.
.LP
+When running
+.BR tcpdump
+with the
+.B \-v
+option on a network interface supporting checksum off-loading,
+IP packets sourced from this machine will have many false 'bad cksum 0' errors.
+.LP
On Linux systems with 2.0[.x] kernels:
.IP
packets on the loopback device will be seen twice;
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