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How to disable packet drop if IP version or checksum field is wrong?

rpeters
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Hello,
I have noticed that my Cisco switch drops IPv4 packets if the version or checksum field is incorrect.
The same happens for IPv6 packets where the version field is incorrect.
I have not tested any other header fields, but there are probably more fields that are checked?
Is there a way to disable this? I cannot find anything about this in the manuals.

I already have disabled all features except for lacp and sshserver.

I want to disable this feature because network data that travels across the Cisco is encrypted from the Ethernet header onward, which means that the complete IPv4/IPv6 header is scrambled data.

Hardware/software version:
Cisco Nexus N9K-C93180YC-EX
NX-OS 9.3(3)

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pieterh
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VIP

>>> complete IPv4/IPv6 header is scrambled data.<<<

that means from the switch'es point of view this is NOT IPv4 packets! and cannot be routed over tcp/ip 

-> turn of L3 routing for this traffic and do only L2 forwarding ???