Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: SLIP documents
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.203703.25654@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Feb6.172144.12605@nmt.edu> <4320@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <5827@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 1991 20:37:03 GMT

In article <5827@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>Well, I might not go *that* far.  Ethernet has a checksum, and SLIP
>doesn't, so if you're, say, using UDP without checksums, Ethernet may be
>more reliable than SLIP....

Surely nobody would be so stupid as to use UDP without checksums. :-) :-)

(For those who don't get the point of the ":-) :-)", NFS uses UDP without
checksums.  And people wonder why NFS is so unreliable...)
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