The Linux TCP checksum offloading bugs are well-established
at this stage. Might aswell document it.
Index: manual/mod/core.html.en
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system did not detect, especially if the binaries were built on
another box and moved to such a machine with broken sendfile
support.</li>
+ <li>On Linux the use of sendfile triggers TCP-checksum
+ offloading bugs on certain networking cards when using IPv6.</li>
<li>With a network-mounted <code class="directive"><a
href="#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code> (e.g., NFS or SMB),
the kernel may be unable to serve the network file through
its own cache.</li>
Index: manual/mod/core.xml
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system did not detect, especially if the binaries were built on
another box and moved to such a machine with broken sendfile
support.</li>
+ <li>On Linux the use of sendfile triggers TCP-checksum
+ offloading bugs on certain networking cards when using IPv6.</li>
<li>With a network-mounted <directive
module="core">DocumentRoot</directive> (e.g., NFS or SMB),
the kernel may be unable to serve the network file through
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