uint16_t
in_cksum(struct mbuf *m, int len)
uint16_t
in4_cksum(struct mbuf *m, uint8_t nxt, int off, int len)
uint16_t
in6_cksum(struct mbuf *m, uint8_t nxt, int off, int len)
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function is used to compute the transport-layer checksum required by
tcp(4)
and
udp(4)
over a range of bytes starting at
off
and continuing on for
len
bytes within the mbuf
m.
If the
nxt
parameter is non-zero, it is assumed to be an IP protocol number.
It is also assumed that the data within
m
starts with an IP header, and the transport-layer header starts at
off;
a pseudo-header is constructed as specified
in RFC768 and RFC793, and the pseudo-header is prepended to the data
covered by the checksum.
The
in6_cksum()
function is similar; if
nxt
is non-zero, it is assumed that
m
starts with an IPv6 header, and that the transport-layer header starts
after
off
bytes.
The
in_cksum()
function is equivalent to
in4_cksum(m, 0, 0, len).
These functions are always performance critical and should be reimplemented in assembler or optimized C for each platform; when available, use of repeated full-width add-with-carry followed by reduction of the sum to a 16 bit width usually leads to best results. See RFC's 1071, 1141, 1624, and 1936 for more information about efficient computation of the internet checksum.
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function currently requires special handling of link-local addresses
in the pseudo-header due to the use of embedded scope-id's within
link-local addresses.