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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:39:59 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@....de>
To: Urs Thuermann <urs@...ogud.escape.de>
Cc: Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com>,
"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
"L F" <lfabio.linux@...il.com>,
"Kok, Auke-jan H" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
"James Chapman" <jchapman@...alix.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: e1000 driver and samba
* Urs Thuermann:
> How can a corrupted frame pass the TCP checksum check?
The TCP/IP checksums are extremely weak. If the corruption is due to
defective SRAM or something like that, it's likely that it causes an
error pattern which is 16-bit-aligned. And an even number of
16-bit-aligned bit flips is not detected by the TCP checksum. 8-(
Actually, nobody should use TCP without application-level checksums
for that reason. But of course, there is HTTP.
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