checksum updating

John Shriver <jas@shiva.com> Thu, 05 January 1995 17:19 UTC

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From: John Shriver <jas@shiva.com>
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To: anil@netcad.enet.dec.com
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In-Reply-To: Anil Rijsinghani 05-Jan-1995 1032 -0500's message of Thu, 5 Jan 95 10:35:39 EST <9501051535.AA20030@us1rmc.bb.dec.com>
Subject: checksum updating

   Date: Thu, 5 Jan 95 10:35:39 EST
   From: Anil Rijsinghani  05-Jan-1995 1032 -0500 <anil@netcad.enet.dec.com>
   To: fred@cisco.com
   Cc: jas@Shiva.COM, rreq@isi.edu
   Subject: Re: checksum updating

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

   Anil

Yes, indeed!  Citing RFC 1071 without citing RFC 1624 looks like a
mistake.  (Especially since our product currently recomputes the
checksum from scratch!)

Bugs that cause 1 in 65536 packets to lose are not fun...