the ethernet packet will jst discard the packet and behave as though no
packet has arrived...
as for the tcp checksum you are right - in that tcp makes no assumption
about its underlying layers...
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a couple of questions -
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> 1) What does the ethernet device do when it gets a packet with bad CRC?
>
> 2) Whats the purpose of the TCP checksum? Is it because TCP can make no assumption
>about the underlying device? (It could be SLIP, which does not do its own checksum).
>
> Thanks
> Akshay
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