Re: Questions from a User Perspective

minshall@wc.novell.com Fri, 11 June 1993 18:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: Questions from a User Perspective
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Just FYI...

>> protocols.  If so, why can't they just be removed from the "standard"?  Could
>> one specific value of the checksum be used to mean "consider me good", and
>> permit checksums to be used where desired and set to this constant value when
>> not?)

This is, in fact, the way IPX [Novell] checksums work.  A value of FFFF -->
no checksums; any other value --> checksum [IP calculation].  Checksums are
used in a few of our newer products.

Greg Minshall    	       	       	       	minshall@wc.novell.com
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