Cursed Checksums

I'm surprised to find that there doesn't seem to be an ebtables mangle table. That'd be the place to match on a u32, then either change that or just mark the packet for checksuming.

In normal conditions, when NAT translates an IP header, it should do correct checksumming. However; when the source IP address of a packet is manipulated, Iptables still seems to use the "original" IP address and calculate the checksum accordingly. This way even if I use 3 three boxes;

Original Packet --> NAT 1 --> NAT 2 --> NAT3 --> Still incorrect checksum

The wrong checksum is carried over and over the line. It is really a strange issue and I could not find a reason why still I get the incorrect checksum even after the IP header is translated three times...

As I said, the original packet must be corrected before it is transmitted to another place and I think it is just two or three lines of code in the kernel, but the question is "where"...

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Albert Cahalan
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 8:55 PM
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Subject: RE: Cursed Checksums

I'm surprised to find that there doesn't seem to be an ebtables mangle table. That'd be the place to match on a u32, then either change that or just mark the packet for checksuming.

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