In pretty much all case where you are seeing TCP checksum errors on a server, it will because of the various TCP offload features of the NIC / driver. If can capture on the wire (that is using port-mirroring on a switch) this will confirm this, or alternatively turn off those features on your server temporarily while testing.
Regards, Martin
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On 27 March 2011 10:07, Kok-Yong Tan
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On Sat, Mar 26, 2011, at 18:53, Kok-Yong Tan wrote:
Just for kicks, I decided to do a wireshark trace of AFP-over-TCP conversations between my Apple MacOS X 10.4.11 Tiger server and my Apple MacOS X 10.5.8 Leopard (PPC) client. Surprisingly, I'm seeing lots of TCP checksum errors (no ssh going on here in the connection since it's all protected on my internal LAN) on packets going in both directions. Now, if the TCP stack were damaged either on the client or the server or both, I would expect connection issues and all packets going through to exhibit the checksum errors. But I don't and not all packets are exhibiting checksum errors between the two machines. Only some. Of course, this is manifesting itself in slower than expected throughput between the server and client since I assume that TCP checksum errors result in retransmits. The server is connected to a ZyXEL GS2024 switch via LACP 802.3ad with 1 IP address in use in the two-NIC bonded pipe. Could this be causing the TCP checksum errors?