The Wireshark routine is based on the BSD in-kernel portable checksum
routine (thus BSD-licensed); it takes a vector of pointers and lengths
and checksums the concatenation of the buffers in question (just as the
BSD in-kernel routine checksums a chain of mbufs).
This simplifies the "with a pseudo-header" checksums; hopefully it'll
fix up the problems being seen on some big-endian platforms, which might
be due to hand-calculating some or all of the checksum and doing so
incorrectly. It also gets rid of some code that might be dereferencing
unaligned pointers.