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RFC 1146: TCP alternate checksum options

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 6247.

Current document in this lineage: RFC 2018 — TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options; RFC 6247 — Moving the Undeployed TCP Extensions RFC 1072, RFC 1106, RFC 1110, RFC 1145, RFC 1146, RFC 1379, RFC 1644, and RFC 1693 to Historic Status; RFC 7323 — TCP Extensions for High Performance

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

This memo is suggests a pair of TCP options to allow use of alternate data checksum algorithms in the TCP header. The use of these options is experimental, and not recommended for production use. Note: This RFC corrects errors introduced in the editing process in RFC 1145.

Document record

Document ID
RFC1146
Published
March 1990
Authors
J. Zweig; C. Partridge
Status
HISTORIC
Stream
Legacy
Area
—
Pages
5
Also known as
—
Obsoletes:
RFC 1145
Obsoleted by:
RFC 6247

Topics

Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 13 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 1072 (1988)
  2. RFC 1106 (1989)
  3. RFC 1110 (1989)
  4. RFC 1145 (1990)
  5. RFC 1146 (1990)
  6. RFC 1185 (1990)
  7. RFC 1323 (1992)
  8. RFC 1379 (1992)
  9. RFC 1644 (1994)
  10. RFC 1693 (1994)
  11. RFC 2018 (1996)
  12. RFC 6247 (2011)
  13. RFC 7323 (2014) ✓

Read the full history of TCP Extensions for High Performance →

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