Bad TCP Checksum / Poor Communications

dmcpike@henge.com
Fri, 10 Nov 1995 14:18:45 -0700

This is a message from one of our users:

>I notice the slow down mainly with the WWW brower (Mosaic), but see it in mail
>and news too. Also, I feel I'm getting to many bad packets-- about 1/3 of my
>packets received have a bad ckecksum. This is true whether at 14.4 or 9.6 Kb.
>
>

Have any of you experienced anything similar to this? I didn't think it was
very natural to have THAT many packets return a bad checksum. Could this
have anything to do with the livingston? I'm assuming not, but if anyone
has any suggestions for me I'd greatly appreciate them :-)

Silla

Dave