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UDP checksum


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... SunOS 3.5 turns the UDP checksum off, which is legal and works okay over interfaces such as ethernet ...
... thus running NFS over SLIP requires you to turn the UDP checksum on. Otherwise, you'll experience erratic behavior such as the one described above. ...



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