> Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 12:33:21 -0700
> From: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.CS.UNLV.EDU>
> 
> >I've heard that suggested too (about udp_cksum in SunOS) but
> >it never made any difference for me if it was on or off.
> >I doubt that is the problem.
> 
> Well i  sure have.  I've experienced  both NFS file corruption and DNS
> request corruption at  the hands  of  this.  BTW, the  person who said
> that COMPAT_42 turns off udpcksum in netbsd 1.1  was correct.  In fact
> this seems  to  be the only   thing that  COMPAT_42  does  (not  to be
> confused  with TCP_COMPAT_42).  Unless there is  some  good reason for
> this I'd suggest getting rid of that option, there just isn't any good
> reason to ever turn off UDP checksums.

Is there a good test to determine when this lossage exists?
BTW, Why is the Ethernet CRC not a sufficient error check?

Gordon