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Re:For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with... by tjoff on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @04:19PM (#18497846)
That doesn't take into consideration of flaky home-routers (note that they do recalculate the checksum). So the checksum might be processed on bad data.

For a bad connection it will also be quite common that the checksum will happen to be valid. TCP/UDP checksums are quite bad.

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