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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