Re: Checksumming Issues

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On Friday 21 November 2003 9:00 pm, Hildebrand, Brian wrote:

> www.netfor2.com/tcpsum.htm
>
> That is the first website I found. I'm sure if you look some more you could
> probably find about 500 more. If you do not follow those instructions, you
> will get bad checksum returns. Just because it is an OSI layer higher does
> not mean it can't include data from lower down the chain.

You are right.   The TCP checksum contains a "notional IP header" which is 
included in the calculation.

Today is not a good day for me :(   It must be somebody else's birthday.

Antony.

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