OK thanks.

Chris Murphy

On Apr 14, 2011, at 10:03 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:

>> I understand, I'd like to just leave this at the physical layer at the 
>> moment. I'm curious if I understand TCP correctly, that just the header is 
>> checksummed, not the data.
> 
>> From Wikipedia:
> The checksum field is the 16 bit one's complement of the one's
> complement sum of all 16-bit words in the header and text.
> 
> That would say that your data is included in the checksum of TCP.
> That matches everything I have learned about the point of the
> streaming protocol and the general accuracy.
> 
> Whether or not the 1's complement summation is sufficiently strong
> enough or not I cannot say.
> 
> IP's headers only checksum the header. The data portion of an IP
> packet is not checksummed or protected by the IP header.
> 
> The TCP portion contains both a TCP header and TCP data. All of it is
> IP level data, ignored by the IP checksum, and all of it is contained
> in the TCP level checksum.
> 
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