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:
11001000 01110101 this binary number is 51317 decimal (base 10)
11111111 11101010 this binary number is 65514 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 11001000 01110101 and 11111111 11101010 = 11001000 01100000
2. The internet checksum is the one's complement of the sum: 11001000 01100000 = 00110111 10011111
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The answer was: 11001000 01100000
The answer was: 00110111 10011111