> Out of curiosity, what's the signal back to the sender that his/her > packet was dropped?? NFS (in some implementations) doesn't checksum > UDP packets, DNS doesn't, there are quite a few things that don't > checksum UDP packets.
I believe this is normally a function of the operating system, not NFS, DNS etc. Hopefully old SunOS versions that had UDP checksums off by default are dead by now. I support the view of Francis Dupont here. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
