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Re: UDP: bad checksum.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Holland)
Fri Dec 1 18:35:56 1995

From: David Holland <dholland@hcs.harvard.edu>
To: STEFFENR@UWSTOUT.EDU
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 18:39:45 -0500 (EST)
Cc: davec@world.std.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
        linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <01HY7N4XPKHI003XXU@UWSTOUT.EDU> from "STEFFENR@UWSTOUT.EDU" at Nov 29, 95 10:33:20 am


It is a report that a bad packet came in from someplace off the
network. It is not a bug. Chances are there's a messed-up DOS machine
someplace using bootp.

Perhaps this message shouldn't be unconditionally sent to the console
though. Linus?

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