[OSPF] BIRD <> Mikrotik checksum

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 11:36:22AM +0200, Maciej Drobniuch wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a problem with binding bird with mikrotik router os.
> The RouterOS says:
> Discarding packet: wrong checksum.

Strange. I will check that.

> In the bird manual we can find
> "The RFC says that a router should check the checksum of every LSA to
> detect hardware problems. BIRD does not do this to minimalize CPU
> utilization."
> Does the BIRD send checksum in OSPF

Yes, BIRD sends and checks checksums, it just doesn't repeatedly checks
checksums of LSAs already in LSAdb.

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