Internet checksum
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internet-checksum-162-9158851
title:
Internet checksum
text:
The Internet checksum, also called the IPv4 header checksum is a checksum used in version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) to detect corruption in the header of IPv4 packets. It is carried in the IP packet header, and represents the 16-bit result of summation of the header words. The IPv6 protocol does not use header checksums. Its designers considered that the whole-packet link layer checksumming provided in protocols, such as PPP and Ethernet, combined with the use of checksums in upper layer
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encyclopedia
description:
Mechanism to detect corruption in the header of an IPv4 packet
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_checksum
date created:
2007-12-17T12:29:57Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T19:47:41Z
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