diff --git a/src/lib/compute_ip_checksum.c b/src/lib/compute_ip_checksum.c
index 48f93d4..58a6bf1 100644
--- a/src/lib/compute_ip_checksum.c
+++ b/src/lib/compute_ip_checksum.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 	new = ~new & 0xFFFF;
 	if (offset & 1) {
 		/* byte swap the sum if it came from an odd offset
-		 * since the computation is endian independant this
+		 * since the computation is endian independent this
 		 * works.
 		 */
 		new = ((new >> 8) & 0xff) | ((new << 8) & 0xff00);