Re: checksum updating

Anil Rijsinghani 05-Jan-1995 1032 -0500 <anil@netcad.enet.dec.com> Thu, 05 January 1995 16:09 UTC

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From: Anil Rijsinghani 05-Jan-1995 1032 -0500 <anil@netcad.enet.dec.com>
To: fred@cisco.com
Cc: jas@shiva.com, rreq@isi.edu
Apparently-To: rreq@ISI.EDU, jas@shiva.com, fred@cisco.com
Subject: Re: checksum updating

If you do so (I think it would be a good idea), please add a reference
to RFC1624.

Anil

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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 17:11:50 -0800
To: John Shriver <jas@Shiva.COM>
From: fred@cisco.com (Fred Baker)
Subject: Re: checksum updating
Cc: rreq@ISI.EDU

At 11:37 PM 1/4/95, John Shriver wrote:
>The primary reason is that it reduces
>the chance that the router will accidentally corrupt the data

I could add a "discussion" note to the effect that incremental updating has
good arguments besides speed. Sufficient?