Hi Manav,

UDP checksum is usually not verified before updating the CF. After CF update it 
is incrementally recalculated. The end host will then verify the checksum for 
correctness.

Regards,
Shahram

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Bhatia, Manav (Manav)
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [TICTOC] UDP checksum

Hi,

Are the LSRs acting as TCs expected to verify the checksum before they update 
the correction field? If no, then there is no point in these LSRs in updating 
the UDP checksum as they will "correct" the checksum when its recomputed after 
modifying the CF field. In this case wouldn't it make more sense to just update 
the checksum at the MPLS terminating point?

I also think that updating the UDP checksum may be redundant as the LSRs are 
anyways verifying the outer ethernet checksum before accepting any packets. Any 
thoughts here?

Cheers, Manav

--
Manav Bhatia,
IP Division, Alcatel-Lucent,
Bangalore - India

 
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