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UDP verifys integrity and correct length of a UDP packet
by the checksum. Length field not required to make
sure "complete".
Still seems like UDP length field serves no purpose that
can't be done some other way.
Part of the reason is to kill space. If you use a 2 byte checksum and no
length, the data starts on a non-multiple of 4, which is inconvenient for
some hardware architectures with 32 bit buses.
Gabe
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