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From: pprindev@wellfleet.com (Philip Prindeville)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Router/Gateway laziness question
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Date: 10 Sep 89 05:55:25 GMT
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> Would this violate any extant or soon-to-be-released conformance criteria
> (i.e. RFCs, or other documents)? It seems dumb to check the correctness of the
> packets over and over again if it has to go through several hops on not-too-
> loaded nets, but I know RFC792 (etc.) often say "if <such-and-such is
> messed up> the packet MUST be dropped".

You can start with the TTL.  That's the biggest waste of time.  Butterflies
got this right...

-Philip