Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Searching for packets with incorrect checksums

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:15:45 -0800 (PST)
> Apparently, someone thought they could use that bit for congestion
> stuff that belongs in Layer 3 (TCP|UDP) not Layer 2 (IP), and they
> left it hanging around in the code. The same can be said for TOS values.
> Layer 2 needs all the bits it can get for addressing, to expand beyond
> the 32-bits.

Well, that's what IPv6 is for, right?