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+This target allows to selectively work around broken/old applications.
+It can only be used in the mangle table.
+.TP
+\fB\-\-checksum\-fill\fP
+Compute and fill in the checksum in a packet that lacks a checksum.
+This is particularly useful, if you need to work around old applications
+such as dhcp clients, that do not work well with checksum offloads,
+but don't want to disable checksum offload in your device.