[TUHS] [SPAM] Re: SCCS

[Norman Wilson]

Peter Jeremy:

> NFS ran much faster when you turned off the UDP checksums as well.
> (Though there was still the Ethernet CRC32).

Dave Horsfall:

  Blerk...  That just tells you that the packet came across the wire more or
  less OK.

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UDP (and TCP) checksums are nearly useless against
the sort of corruption Larry described.  Since they
are a simple addition with carry wraparound, you
can insert or remove any number of word-aligned pairs
of zero octets without the checksum changing.

I discovered this the hard way, while tracking down
a kernel bug that caused exactly that sort of corruption.

Does IPv6 require a meaningful checksum, or just the
useless old ritual one?

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON