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Re:AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits by thamer on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:41PM (#25341013)
Checksums are often calculated in hardware on the NIC. I have personally seen a network card send packets with corrupted data (corrupted by the network card itself) and valid TCP checksums, computed on the corrupted data.
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Re:AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits by tyu2 on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:57PM (#25341147)
That's true, but doesn't apply in this case if you assume you received one with wrong checksum, a network card won't recompute it of course.
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