On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 03:11:51PM -0700, Brent Crosby wrote:
>   The trick is to only discard one byte instead of the whole
> buffer or a whole packet's worth of bytes. Then the receiver
> essentially has a  sliding 10-byte window, whose CRC will
> only match up if there is a valid packet in the 10 bytes.

If you are dealing with an unaligned bit stream you would drop a bit at
a time instead, I guess.

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James Cameron                                      (quozl@us.netrek.org)