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SubjectRe: [patch] longstanding chksum patch
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Artur Skawina wrote:

>The ip checksum is defined in terms of _16-bit_ _words_.
>[hence different aligment requirements]

The checksum can be computed on buffers of all sizes (the _rule_ is to
zero pad). The retval of the checksum has nothing to do with the alignment
of the data in memory.

Andrea


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