[NUT-devel] Suggestions [PATCH]

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:32:37PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > >  checksum
> > > > >      crc32 checksum
> > > > >      checksum is calculated for the area pointed to by forward_ptr not
> > > > >      including the checksum itself (from first byte after the
> > > > >      forward_ptr until last byte before the checksum).
> > > > 
> > > > You should probably mention what area the checksum of frame headers 
> > > > cover...
> > > 
> > > ok
> > 
> > Is a checksum of 1 byte really useful? 
> 
> yes

A 1 byte message with a checksum is theoretically the same as a 5 byte
startcode. However, it may actually be worse in practice.

Rich