IPv4 header included checksum but not in IPv6, why?

时间:2019-01-07 12:58:40

标签: security networking ipv6 checksum

I have explored more to find why checksum is removed from ipv6 but I couldn't get exact answer, How the mutable fields in IPv6 protected?

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:2)

TCP和UDP之类的更高层(> = 4)协议仍然具有自己的校验和。如此众多的低层协议(<= 2)已经拥有自己的校验和,以至于在IP(第3层)中拥有另一个校验和被视为不必要的开销。

这是工程决策。