On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:44:12PM -0800, David Stevens wrote: > That's actually what I was suggesting. In 1's-complement, > ~0 == -0 which is still 0, so barring any special case (like UDP's > "0 means no checksum" rule), it should be equally valid for a > packet to have 0 or ~0 as the checksum (with otherwise identical > data)-- they are both correct, and equal to each other. That > extra 1's-complement 0 is, of course, why UDP can have the > special case of remapping 0->~0. > Since the patch was for output-side, it doesn't matter > whether you remap 0 to ~0 or not (except for the special case), > but a receiver technically should allow either.
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