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Re: Why is 0 UDP checksum not valid for IPv6?

otroan@employees.org Thu, 05 January 2017 09:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: Why is 0 UDP checksum not valid for IPv6?
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Naveen,

> Can anyone tell why is 0 UDP checksum isn't valid for IPv6, whereas it is valid for IPv4?

RFC6935
RFC6936

Cheers,
Ole

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