[e2e] draft on IP Fast Option Lookup

Craig Partridge craig at aland.bbn.com
Mon Mar 26 05:39:28 PST 2001


In message <200103231827.f2NIRuX12662 at calcite.rhyolite.com>, Vernon Schryver wr
ites:

>The weaknesses in the RFC's that tried to instruct how to make compute
>the TCP checksum faster are classic examples of that syndrome.

Really -- my recollection is that those of us who wrote those RFCs actually
had done checksum work.  We just managed to completely bungle writing
down some of the details.  (Which is unfortunate but tars us with a different
brush...)

Craig



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