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Comment by notherhack

10 hours ago

For NAT (Network Address Translation) or any other packet header modifications, you need to recalculate checksums manually

Why doesn’t checksum offload in the NIC take care of that?

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notherhack

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jcalvinowens  9 hours ago

And I'm confused how they have to correct the TCP checksum but not the IPv4 header checksum...

  • shivanshvij  9 hours ago

    Oh no we absolutely have to also correct the IPv4 header checksum!

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