Hi Jack, I don't think it is a good idea. In my opinion we should not / can not specify that packets with wrong UDP checksum will be sent on the wire.
Best, Ron On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Jack Kohn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Bhatia, Manav (Manav) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yakov, > > > >> Actually, I think Stewart was referring to > >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6lowpan-hc-13 . > >> > >> If there are several proposals on the table, albeit for special cases, > >> to make the UDP checksum optional, then we can propose that > >> operation too. > > > > Alternatively, we could just keep this within our WG and add the > following to the 1588oMPLS draft: > > > > LSRs that adjust the CF field MAY not update the UDP checksum in case of > IPv6. The node that terminates the tunnel MUST recompute the UDP checksum > after MPLS decapsulation and before any further processing. > > I would prefer this over a proposal for deprecating UDP checksum for IPv6. > > Each 1588aware LSR that updates the CF is anyways updating the > ethernet FCS, which should be good enough to verify the basic > integrity of the packet. > > My 0.02$ > > Jack > _______________________________________________ > TICTOC mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tictoc >
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