[ih] Fwd: early networking: "the solution"

[Dave Crocker]

On 4/22/2024 10:11 AM, Craig Partridge via Internet-history wrote:
> And, for years, trashed NFS file systems were a fact of life...

The Ungermann-Bass version of XNS had a similar vulnerability, with 
similar results.  While I was there it took Engineering months to track 
down a bad bit of electronics that was corrupting file data being 
transferred.

I remember a coworking noting that hand they been checksums in UDP or 
TCP, the electronics error would have merely produced an increase in an 
error count, and a retransmission, and no data corruption.

d/

ps.  this assumed that the error was not of the type the IP checksum 
would miss...

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Dave Crocker
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