Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: checksumming Novell? Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 20:47:24 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 10 We've been bitten a few times by corrupted data in files and routing updates transmitted by Novell. The ultimate cause is a problem in a serial controller card on one of our routers. The vendor is fixing the problem. However I'm very nervous about using a protocol that doesn't seem to have any protocol-level way of detecting bad packets. Novell is based on XNS, but apparently they always set the checksum field to ones. Does anyone know whether it's possible to configure Novell software to do checksumming? Also, if our routers put a checksum in the checksum field, do you know whether Novell will check it, ignore it, or reject the packet?