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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re:  NIC host considered hero
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Date: 29 Sep 88 00:57:00 GMT
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In article <8809132204.AA01771@braden.isi.edu> braden@VENERA.ISI.EDU writes:
>Dave,
>
>To qoute from my favorite (draft) document, the Host Requirements RFC:
>
>
> "UDP is almost a null protocol; the only services it provides over IP are
>  checksumming of data and multiplexing by port number.  
And am I still correct in assuming Sun doesn't even do half of those?
(Or is UDP checksumming for NFS back in SunOS 4.0?)

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