On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tobias Weingartner wrote:
> > 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...
> >
>
> it's probably my lack of knowledge, but I thought it would be possible to
> solve this by a TCP option without breaking interoperability. So this is
> actually a design decision which can't be corrected without a TCP replacement
> (which, I guess, won't happen in the next years)?
Yes, it could be solved with options. There's even an RFC for it. But
since aparently nobody is implementing it, it is probably not very
interesting.
-Otto
