[e2e] UDP length field
Greg Minshall
minshall at redback.com
Mon Apr 16 15:38:42 PDT 2001
Michael,
i would assume that most UDPs get the IP length field as part of their
interface with IP. how they validity check the two length fields is an open
question, though Craig gave a reasonable one (UDPlength <= IPlength).
(i assume the *2 bytes* used for UDP length in the UDP header are there for
alignment, though i don't know why they were used to carry redundant
information rather than "reserved".)
Greg Minshall
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