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:
10011100 01001101 this binary number is 40013 decimal (base 10)
01001110 11101110 this binary number is 20206 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 10011100 01001101 and 01001110 11101110 = 11101011 00111011
2. The internet checksum is the one's complement of the sum: 11101011 00111011 = 00010100 11000100
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The answer was: 11101011 00111011
The answer was: 00010100 11000100