Computing an Internet checksum
Consider the two 16-bit words (shown in binary) below. Recall that to compute the Internet checksum of a set of 16-bit words, we compute the one's complement sum [1] of the two words. That is, we add the two numbers together, making sure that any carry into the 17th bit of this initial sum is added back into the 1's place of the resulting sum); we then take the one's complement of the result. Compute the Internet checksum value for these two 16-bit words:
01110101 00000101 this binary number is 29957 decimal (base 10)
00000010 01110011 this binary number is 627 decimal (base 10)
Question List
1. What is the sum of these two 16 bit numbers? Don't put any spaces in your answer
2. Using the sum from question 1, what is the checksum? Don't put any spaces in your answer
Solution
1. The sum of 01110101 00000101 and 00000010 01110011 = 01110111 01111000
2. The internet checksum is the one's complement of the sum: 01110111 01111000 = 10001000 10000111
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The answer was: 01110111 01111000
The answer was: 10001000 10000111