Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu!ralphw From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: NIC host considered hero Message-ID: <3158@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 29 Sep 88 00:57:00 GMT References: <8809132204.AA01771@braden.isi.edu> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 16 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?) -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius3.cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412) CMU-BUGS Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA "You can do what you want with my computer, but leave me alone!8-)"