Re: checksum updating

Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> Thu, 05 January 1995 01:30 UTC

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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?