<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Adel Kodmani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpcadel@gmail.com" target="_blank">mpcadel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">I am writing a kernel module that actually modifies the TCP header(both at sending and receiving) and I need to re-calculate the header because of that.<br>I am capturing the packets using netfilter, so I have access to the whole SKB, I am using Linux 2.6.35-22<div>
<br></div><div>Looking into the source code of the TCP/IP, I found this function</div><div>void tcp_v4_send_check(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);</div><div>The comment above it says this routing computes the IPv4 TCP checksum <br>
<br>Trying to use this function, I called it passing to it skb->sk and skb</div><div>With no success so far.<br><br>So my question is, how do I correctly calculate the TCP checksum? I know there's a psudoheader that must be created, and added to the calculation but there must be a function in the kernel I can call that already does that.<br>
<br><br>Thanks in advance,</div><div>Adel</div></div>
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<br></blockquote></div>I think this may be helpful to you<br><a href="http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/05/ip-header-checksum/">http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/05/ip-header-checksum/</a><br><br><br>