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admiun | 10 years ago

Interestingly IPv6 removed the checksum from its packet header [1], delegating this work to the higher protocols such as TCP and UDP.[2] So I guess that raises the chance of an invalid IP header getting through. Source and target address will probably result in dropped packets but I wonder what happens if one of the other fields is corrupted, say traffic class.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_packet#Fixed_header

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Simplified_processing_by_...

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X-Istence|10 years ago

If traffic class is corrupted it will simply be QoS'ed wrong. No biggie.