3.2.1.2 Checksum: RFC-791 Section 3.1 (original) (raw)

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3.2.1.2 Checksum: RFC-791 Section 3.1

A host MUST verify the IP header checksum on every received datagram and silently discard every datagram that has a bad checksum.


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