tcpdump, rl, sis, fxp and multicast problems

Matthew X. Economou xenophon at irtnog.org
Sun Jan 21 02:11:18 UTC 2007


> not very important but wouldn't it be better to set the checksum
> to 0 instead of some arbitrary (?) and confusing value then ?

No, as not setting the checksum is a (minor) optimization.  Setting that
field to any arbitrary constant means at least one completely
unnecessary CPU instruction per datagram.

Best wishes,
Matthew 

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