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
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