IP: optimize as a router not host

Herbert Rosmanith (herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at)
Sat, 16 Mar 1996 07:13:17 +0100 (MET)


hello,

reading about "IP: optimize as a router not host" says, that this will
turn off checksum calculation. couldn't this be done automatically,
i.e. for any packet that is known to be routed, don't perform checksum
calculus, while any other packet, that directly addresses this host,
will be checksummed (e.g. any address that contains one of our
interface addresses in the dest field).

/herp