Some signaling errors can cause entire ranges of bits in a packet to be overwritten by all

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Some signaling errors can cause entire ranges of bits in a packet to be overwritten by all 0s or all 1s. Suppose all the bits in the packet including the Internet checksum are overwritten. Could a packet with all 0s or all 1s be a legal IPv4 packet? Will the Internet checksum catch that error? Why or why not?

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Computer Networks A Systems Approach

ISBN: 9780128182000

6th Edition

Authors: Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie

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