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A comment on Turtles on the Wire: Understanding How the OS Uses the Modern NIC (2016).

Re:Turtles on the Wire: Understanding How the OS Uses the Mo... by tedunangst on Sunday April 02, 2017 @02:47PM (#14018377)
Buggy firmware with edge cases is putting it mildly. I suppose a checksum of 0000 or ffff is technically an edge case, but not all that uncommon, and a pretty popular thing to get wrong.
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Re:Turtles on the Wire: Understanding How the OS Uses the Mo... by gonzo on Sunday April 02, 2017 @03:18PM (#14018508)
Even the standards got it wrong. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1624
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