2.6.0: Bad udp checksum in loopback interface

[Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>]

tcpdump -v shows bad udp checksum in the loopback interface. But I'm not sure 
if the packets is discarded or the error is ignored.

ponti:~# tcpdump -i lo -n -v

ponti:~# dig @192.168.0.3 gallimedina.net

13:02:12.360728 192.168.0.3.32827 > 192.168.0.3.53: [bad udp cksum 5e6d!]  
35220+ A? gallimedina.net. (33) (DF) [ttl 0] (id 0, len 61)
13:02:12.364470 192.168.0.3.53 > 192.168.0.3.32827:  35220* 1/1/1 
gallimedina.net. A 192.168.0.10 (85) (DF) [ttl 0] (id 12492, len 113)

ponti:~# dig @127.0.0.1 gallimedina.net


13:03:53.299883 127.0.0.1.32827 > 127.0.0.1.53: [bad udp cksum 167d!]  32901+ 
A? gallimedina.net. (33) (DF) [ttl 0] (id 0, len 61)
13:03:53.303448 127.0.0.1.53 > 127.0.0.1.32827:  32901* 1/1/1 gallimedina.net. 
A 192.168.0.10 (85) (DF) [ttl 0] (id 7725, len 113)



This machine has a bridge, but I also tried in another one with netcat (nc -l 
-u localhost -p 2000 and nc -u localhost 2000)

antoli:~# tcpdump -i lo -n -v
tcpdump: listening on lo
13:09:04.125385 127.0.0.1.32890 > 127.0.0.1.2000: [bad udp cksum 5a0!] udp 14 
(DF) [ttl 0] (id 32006, len 42)
13:09:12.472940 127.0.0.1.2000 > 127.0.0.1.32890: [bad udp cksum 837!] udp 7 
(DF) [ttl 0] (id 34086, len 35)


I saw the short message does arrive to the listening netcat, but tcpdump still 
gives the bad udp error message.

Regards,

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