Subject: Re: NFS lossage from NetBSD to SunOS
To: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
From: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.CS.UNLV.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 05/02/1996 12:33:21
>I've heard that suggested too (about udp_cksum in SunOS) but
>it never made any difference for me if it was on or off.
>I doubt that is the problem.
Well i sure have. I've experienced both NFS file corruption and DNS
request corruption at the hands of this. BTW, the person who said
that COMPAT_42 turns off udpcksum in netbsd 1.1 was correct. In fact
this seems to be the only thing that COMPAT_42 does (not to be
confused with TCP_COMPAT_42). Unless there is some good reason for
this I'd suggest getting rid of that option, there just isn't any good
reason to ever turn off UDP checksums.
--Greg