- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:39:08 +0000
- To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
- cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <9A043F3CF02CD34C8E74AC1594475C738DED40D7@uxcn10-tdc06.UoA.auckland. ac.nz>, Peter Gutmann writes: > The reason for the 16-bit swap is because > the Fletcher checksum used in TCP/IP doesn't detect 16-bit word > swaps, so this allows the connection-control to be invalidated > without requiring a recalculation of the TCP checksum. > > Someone probably got bonus pay for coming up with this */ Well deserved IMO, that is a neat hack :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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