> I can tell you from experience that not using checksums is inviting disaster.

doesn't ethernet has it's own layer-2 checksumming?
> -Mike
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:16:41 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net
> > To: netbsd-users@netbsd.org
> > Subject: hardware IP checksumming etc...
> >
> > i've read about hardware checksumming support.
> >
> > what about implementing "no checksumming support"?
> >
> > for example when communicating through ethernet on LAN it could work
> > excellent without checksums.
> >
> > wouldn't an option "don't check&calculate sums" set per-interface a good
> > idea, while still maintaining checksums on LANs where are other OS'es or
> > on non-ethernet links?
> >
> >
>