In message <20010604134522.D15872@dr-evil.shagadelic.org>, Jason R Thorpe write
s:
>On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:16:41PM +0200, wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>No, that would be a really really really bad idea.
>

Agreed.  Note that we have running code for just how bad an idea this 
is -- Sun tried it many years ago for NFS.  It caused *many* problems.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb