On Thursday, November 17, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
> 
> As much better algorithms for error detection are known and PC 
> performance (and also Internet traffic) has increased a lot since the 
> introduction of TCP - do you think that the original checksum algorithm 
> is still the best choice in terms of a reliability/performance tradeoff?

Nope, it is not.  But that's the reason it's called a "standard".  You
get some good, and some bad with them.  Welcome to the real world...

--Toby.

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