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

-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?
>
>