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A comment on Issue 87 – google-compute-engine – UDP Packet Fragments cannot be reassembled. Parent comment

Re:Issue 87 – google-compute-engine – UDP Packet Fragments c... by api on Monday November 16, 2015 @09:08PM (#10578751)
It's legal to send UDP packets with a zero checksum, indicating "no checksum." This can be set at a UDP socket level in Linux. I wonder if that would make any difference?

(Of course this assumes your protocol has some alternate method of verifying transferred data, which many do.)

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Re:Issue 87 – google-compute-engine – UDP Packet Fragments c... by cbsmith on Monday November 16, 2015 @09:41PM (#10578859)
That is an interesting idea. I'd love to see an experiment to determine if it makes a difference.
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Re:Issue 87 – google-compute-engine – UDP Packet Fragments c... by api on Monday November 16, 2015 @10:15PM (#10578954)
Example:

https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/14264c2d6f7d20b...

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