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Allison > > > > So what should I do if I want to use IPv6, which mandates UDP checksums > > and requires receivers to discard UDP packets without checksums (i.e. > > with zero checksum)? I assume that there is also a mandate to discard > > UDP packets whose checksum is wrong, although I don't see that > > explicitly in either the UDP or IPv6 RFCs. > > I've been told there is supposed to be work on something called UDP-lite > in TSVWG - the ability to have the UDP checksum cover some number of bytes > in the packet (like e.g. just the pseudo-header, UDP header, and RTP header). > But I don't know how this work is progressing. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
