On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Suresh Krishnan wrote:
But, if the checksum was there, wouldn't the packet be dropped ?
So isn't the result a dropped packet
anyway ?
If the checksum was there, the packet would not be passed on to a
wrong application (the app listening on port 2280) and probably be
interpreted wrongly as payload for that application. Imagine that
the port gets changed to 80 and the tunneled packet is interpreted
as http.
Do you have any statistics which would give us a clue that a packet was
changed and all the other checksums on that packet (ethernet frame
for instance)
would be recalculated and correct but only the UDP checksum was bad?
My gut feeling is this would be a pretty remote possibility.
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