>My only complaint about sup versus rdist is that sup doesn't appear to
>CRC the files that it transfers, so if the IP checksum fails, you've
>got a corrupt file and no way of knowing that it's corrupt.  I notice
>what I think are IP checksum failures (that is, an error isn't
>detected) on my slip link about every other week or so.

I thought TCP was designed to guarantee error-free delivery of a
packet.  Shouldn't TCP cause the packet to be resent if the IP
checksum is wrong?

Sup is a TCP, not UDP, is it not?

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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