RFC 1145

"TCP alternate checksum options", February 1990

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1145.txt
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Status:

HISTORIC (changed from EXPERIMENTAL May 2011)

Obsoleted by:

RFC 1146, RFC 6247

Authors:

J. Zweig
C. Partridge

Stream:

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Abstract

This memo is suggests a pair of TCP options to allow use of alternate data checksum algorithms in the TCP header. The use of these options is experimental, and not recommended for production use.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.