On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Steve Meyers <[email protected]> wrote: > So why was the checksum wrong? It turns out that the virtio driver in > C6 has some optimizations in it. It waits until a packet actually hits > the wire to calculate the checksum. Internally to the physical host, it > never bothers -- since it's never going on the wire, it doesn't > calculate it or check it. The problem was that OpenVPN was sending > those bad packets to my home network without fixing the checksum, since > they never hit the physical machine's NIC.
Thanks for sharing! It sounds like you should be able to choose a different driver and avoid moving this to a physical host, right? If so, why not do that? Gabe /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
