On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 12:03 -0500, Bill Auerbach wrote: > The two devices communicating probably will be directly connected. Though > the user could put this on his LAN, I would think the router would direct > traffic from the PC right back to the lwIP device and then only the router > could or would introduce errors that TCP checksumming would be required to > check, is this right?
The drivers and hardware at either end could also have bugs that would introduce errors that the TCP checksum would normally protect against. Do you really have confidence that both drivers, and all the hardware in the network, are bug-free? What would be the consequence of an undetected data error? Kieran _______________________________________________ lwip-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lwip-users
