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monocasa on June 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: What’s New in Apple Filesystems [pdf]

We don't have IP checksums, and only have TCP and UDP checksums because it's optional on Ethernet, and TCP/UDP doesn't always run over Ethernet anyway.

throw0101a on June 14, 2019 [–]

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_header_checksum

Skipped in IPv6.

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