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From: brent@terra.Eng.Sun.COM (Brent Callaghan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Summary:  NFS over links slower than 10 Mbit/sec
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Date: 5 Feb 91 17:38:04 GMT
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In article <1991Feb5.031603.2969@amd.com>, remaker@icarus.amd.com (Phillip Remaker) writes:
> 
> 	o Set UDP checksums on if IP headers are stripped off anywhere.  This
>           costs in performace but ensures data integrity.

Actually, set UDP checksumming if the packets go off-ethernet.

Without UDP checksums you only have the ethernet CRC to
protect your data.  IP headers have a checksum, but it
only protects the header itself.
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