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From: braden@VENERA.ISI.EDU
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Subject: Re: Rumors about the death of the ARPANET
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Date: 22 Mar 88 17:20:36 GMT
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	What would be interesting is to see if there is a way to design
	a simple end-end "checksum" designed to catch errors which are not
	like those in communications media, i.e., result from bugs, configuration
	mistakes, etc., rather than line noise and the like.
	Jack
	
Actually, Jack, I think that is what you (as part of the TCP WG) did.
The TCP checksum is probably too weak for communications media, but it
DOES, as you point out, catch subtle host software errors!

Bob Braden