diff --git a/fake-tcp/Cargo.toml b/fake-tcp/Cargo.toml
index 3b05661..70d3017 100644
--- a/fake-tcp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/fake-tcp/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ description = """
 A TUN interface based, user space, asynchronous and high performance TCP stack that allows
 packet oriented tunneling with minimum overhead.
 """
+
+[features]
+benchmark = []
+
 [dependencies]
 bytes = "1"
 pnet = "0.28.0"
@@ -17,3 +21,4 @@ tokio-tun = "0.3.15"
 tokio = { version = "1.11.0", features = ["full"] }
 rand = { version = "0.8.4", features = ["small_rng"] }
 log = "0.4"
+internet-checksum = "0.2.0"
diff --git a/fake-tcp/src/lib.rs b/fake-tcp/src/lib.rs
index c7d55d6..32c1270 100644
--- a/fake-tcp/src/lib.rs
+++ b/fake-tcp/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#![cfg_attr(feature = "benchmark", feature(test))]
+
 pub mod packet;
 
 use bytes::{Bytes, BytesMut};
diff --git a/fake-tcp/src/packet.rs b/fake-tcp/src/packet.rs
index 77262e7..546fb73 100644
--- a/fake-tcp/src/packet.rs
+++ b/fake-tcp/src/packet.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 use bytes::{Bytes, BytesMut};
+use internet_checksum::Checksum;
+use pnet::packet::Packet;
 use pnet::packet::{ip, ipv4, tcp};
 use std::convert::TryInto;
 use std::net::SocketAddrV4;
@@ -35,7 +37,9 @@ pub fn build_tcp_packet(
     v4.set_destination(*remote_addr.ip());
     v4.set_total_length(total_len.try_into().unwrap());
     v4.set_flags(ipv4::Ipv4Flags::DontFragment);
-    v4.set_checksum(ipv4::checksum(&v4.to_immutable()));
+    let mut cksm = Checksum::new();
+    cksm.add_bytes(v4.packet());
+    v4.set_checksum(u16::from_be_bytes(cksm.checksum()));
 
     let mut tcp = tcp::MutableTcpPacket::new(&mut tcp_buf).unwrap();
     tcp.set_window(0xffff);
@@ -54,11 +58,16 @@ pub fn build_tcp_packet(
         tcp.set_payload(payload);
     }
 
-    let checksum = tcp::ipv4_checksum(&tcp.to_immutable(), local_addr.ip(), remote_addr.ip());
-    tcp.set_checksum(checksum);
+    let mut cksm = Checksum::new();
+    cksm.add_bytes(&local_addr.ip().octets());
+    cksm.add_bytes(&remote_addr.ip().octets());
+    let ip::IpNextHeaderProtocol(tcp_protocol) = ip::IpNextHeaderProtocols::Tcp;
+    let pseudo = [0u8, tcp_protocol, 0, tcp_total_len as u8];
+    cksm.add_bytes(&pseudo);
+    cksm.add_bytes(v4.packet());
+    tcp.set_checksum(u16::from_be_bytes(cksm.checksum()));
 
     v4_buf.unsplit(tcp_buf);
-
     v4_buf.freeze()
 }
 
@@ -68,3 +77,61 @@ pub fn parse_ipv4_packet(buf: &Bytes) -> (ipv4::Ipv4Packet, tcp::TcpPacket) {
 
     (v4, tcp)
 }
+
+#[cfg(all(test, feature = "benchmark"))]
+mod benchmarks {
+    extern crate test;
+    use super::*;
+    use test::{black_box, Bencher};
+
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_build_tcp_packet_1460(b: &mut Bencher) {
+        let local_addr = "127.0.0.1:1234".parse().unwrap();
+        let remote_addr = "127.0.0.2:1234".parse().unwrap();
+        let payload = black_box([123u8; 1460]);
+        b.iter(|| {
+            build_tcp_packet(
+                local_addr,
+                remote_addr,
+                123,
+                456,
+                tcp::TcpFlags::ACK,
+                Some(&payload),
+            )
+        });
+    }
+
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_build_tcp_packet_512(b: &mut Bencher) {
+        let local_addr = "127.0.0.1:1234".parse().unwrap();
+        let remote_addr = "127.0.0.2:1234".parse().unwrap();
+        let payload = black_box([123u8; 512]);
+        b.iter(|| {
+            build_tcp_packet(
+                local_addr,
+                remote_addr,
+                123,
+                456,
+                tcp::TcpFlags::ACK,
+                Some(&payload),
+            )
+        });
+    }
+
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_build_tcp_packet_128(b: &mut Bencher) {
+        let local_addr = "127.0.0.1:1234".parse().unwrap();
+        let remote_addr = "127.0.0.2:1234".parse().unwrap();
+        let payload = black_box([123u8; 128]);
+        b.iter(|| {
+            build_tcp_packet(
+                local_addr,
+                remote_addr,
+                123,
+                456,
+                tcp::TcpFlags::ACK,
+                Some(&payload),
+            )
+        });
+    }
+}