Bug#353161: dhcp3-relay: udp has incorrect checksum when relaying to self

[David W. Hankins]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:50:57PM -0800, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:13:46PM +0000, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> > [1] I'm assuming that the dhcp relay server opens a raw socket and so
> > 	generates its own udp checksum?

It does indeed.

I've opened a bug ticket in our own database to track this, we'll have
a look at our checksum generator and see if we can spot a flaw.

It probably has to do with the nature of the addresses (two 0x7f's).

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