Re: Checksum at IP layer - is it even needed ?

> > Just moving to TCP/IP to CRC32 will *not* solve the issue of
> > middleboxes mangling our data.
> isn't the solution to all of this to just use TLS ? (or DTLS for udp)
TLS/SSL is one solution; But there needs to be a solution for
unencrypted traffic also.

TCP is supposed to guarantee end-to-end reliability, but sometimes it
doesn't. (and with 2^16 checksums, at modern 1 Gig home links, it
really can't...)

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"