Re: Incremental update of Fletcher's checksum

Fred Baker <fred@CISCO.COM> Mon, 15 September 2003 16:30 UTC

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From: Fred Baker <fred@CISCO.COM>
Subject: Re: Incremental update of Fletcher's checksum
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At 08:06 AM 9/13/2003, Igor Miroshnik wrote:
>1) May the Fletcher's checksum be updated incrementally?

Yes. ISO DIS 8473 (CLNS) actually requires that to be done, and specifies
in Annex C how to go about it. Of course, the copy of DIS 8473 I have
doesn't actually have such a section, although it refers to it...