Re: UDP zero checksums and v4 to v6 translators

[Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet at amorsen.dk>]

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> writes:

> Er, do your routers do that when they throw away packets due to
> congestion?

If a router throws away a packet due to congestion, there's a good
chance that a retransmission will go through. In this case you can
retransmit as many no-UDP-checksum packets you want, none of them will
get through. The host really ought to be told that it is wasting its
time.


/Benny