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From: Randi <nightdecoder@gmail.com>
To: Chris Donovan <alienresidents@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UDP data
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:14:29 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1297314869.2205.48.camel@godart> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik991ekzViW3e_amoNiO=4LB30snwbvDrwu61Nz@mail.gmail.com>

Chris, optional means it can be enable or not, how to enable it and get
the header to verify the checksum.


On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 15:14 +1100, Chris Donovan wrote:
> Yes the checksum is for the header and data.
> Keep in mind that the checksum value is optional in ipv4, but required in ipv6.
> 
> Chris-
> 
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Randi <nightdecoder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >        Since UDP socket is not reliable, what the common way in user level to
> > check UDP communication's data for error (eg. malformed, corrupted,
> > etc.)? is the checksum field in the UDP header (struct udphdr) intended
> > to this problem?
> >
> >        Randi


  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-10  5:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTimck7ar6JPzSnNZo_baTz1usHLeUFxkL8GaqriV@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-03 14:50 ` dynamic shared library ratheesh k
2011-02-03 14:59   ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-02-10  3:41     ` UDP data Randi
2011-02-10  4:14       ` Chris Donovan
2011-02-10  5:14         ` Randi [this message]
2011-02-10 15:41           ` Glynn Clements
2011-02-10 18:43             ` David Astua
2011-02-10 20:49           ` Chris Donovan
2011-03-19 21:57     ` dynamic shared library Hendrik Visage

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