When the CRC and TCP checksum disagree.

Traces of Internet packets from the past two years show that between 1 packet in 1,100 and 1 packet in 32,000 fails the TCP checksum, even on links where link-level CRCs should catch all but 1 in 4 billion errors. For certain situations, the rate of checksum failures can be even higher: in one hour-...

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Pubblicato in:	Computer communication review. 30, 4 (2000).
Autore principale:	Stone, Jonathan
Natura:	Articolo
Lingua:	inglese
Soggetti:	Computer systems organization. Computer communication networks. Network protocols. TCP IP. Network architecture and design. Packet switching networks. Local and wide area networks. Internet (e.g., TCP/IP). Design. Measurement. Performance. Reliability. Standardization. Theory.