End-to-End Examples

• Example #1:

My favorite: “A Too-Real Example” (2.2)

• Problem: corruption of bits in transit
• (Faulty) Solution: link-by-link checksumming
• Real problem: bits corrupted “between” links!
• Reliance on supposedly correct behavior
• Need end-to-end guarantee of correctness

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