[ih] Fwd: early networking: "the solution" (Dave Crocker)

[Dave Crocker]

On 4/22/2024 4:26 PM, Larry Stewart via Internet-history wrote:
> IP has separate IP and TCP checksums,

IPv6 does not have a checksum. Deering dropped in for the initial 
proposal, to save bits, noting that its utility was redundant with the 
transport-level checksum.

d/

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