Re: ipv6 header checksum

[Ignatios Souvatzis]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:42:37PM +1200, Sean Lin wrote:

>     As we all know, there's no ipv6 header checksum field. Therefore,
> for routers forwarding packets, the checksum of ipv6 packets cannot be
> calculated? Which means that ipv6 routers will generally have a faster
> throughput compared to a similar ipv4 router (assuming there's no
> extension headers and option headers)?

Yes. That's the reason it was designed that way.

        -is

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