Subject: Re: hardware IP checksumming etc...
To: None <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/05/2001 07:29:47
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 07:28:31AM +0200, wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net wrote:
> > I can tell you from experience that not using checksums is inviting disaster.
>
> doesn't ethernet has it's own layer-2 checksumming?
Sure, but there are plenty of cheap hubs/switches that screw it up in
a way that makes a corrupted/packet appear OK.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>