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Date:      Wed, 01 May 1996 10:13:32 -0400
From:      Andrew Heybey <ath@bellcore.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fast IP/TCP checksums ? 
Message-ID:  <199605011413.KAA06495@grapenuts.bellcore.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 01 May 1996 14:54:46 %2B0200. <199605011254.OAA08931@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 

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>> Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> said:

  [Questions about computing checksums 32 bits at a time and the
   same way on both big- and little-endian machines.]

See RFC 1071 for a discussion of these and other properties of the
Internet checksum.  Note that the formula for incremental checksum
updating in this RFC is incorrect--see RFC 1624 for a correct version.

andrew



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