case%utkvx4.DECNET@UTKCS2.CS.UTK.EDU (J. D. CASE) (10/29/87)
I am teaching a course on the TCP/IP protocol suite and internetworking. We are using the RFC's as a text and sources for "workbook". While going through some RFC's, a question has come up that I desire help in answering. My students would like to know what the thinking was behind including the pseudo-header into the TCP checksum algorithm RFC 793 pp 16,17 and into the UDP checksum algorithm RFC 768 p 2. Do any of you old crusty souls who were present in the discussions leading to those documents remember some of the thinking that led to those decsions? Help appreciated in advance. Jeff Case case@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu