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Checksums are often calculated in hardware on the NIC. I have personally seen a network card send packets with corrupted data (corrupted by the network card its
by thamer 6y ago
Checksums are often calculated in hardware on the NIC. I have personally seen a network card send packets with corrupted data (corrupted by the network card itself) and valid TCP checksums, computed on the corrupted data.
- tyu2 6y agoThat's true, but doesn't apply in this case if you assume you received one with wrong checksum, a network card won't recompute it of course.