Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 1999 03:37:57 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] longstanding chksum patch |
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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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