[e2e] Applications with UDP checksum disabled

Greg Minshall minshall at redback.com
Mon Mar 11 14:19:32 PST 2002


at least one UDP problem were the problems in the 4.2 (and maybe 4.3?) BSD 
algorithm that got the UDP checksum wrong (if i'm remembering right).  this is 
why those early BSD systems shipped with UDP checksums turned off by default.  
this might explain why NFS shipped with UDP checksums disabled (to avoid 
running into this bug).




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