Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal showing extra data on the end of packets

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:02:13 -0500
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:49:40AM -0500, Timothy Babin wrote:
> 
> 
> I am trying to debug a problem with ethereal showing
> extra information on the end of packets.
> 
> I am capturing ICMP packets with both ethereal and tcpdump.
> tcpdump correctly shows me the shortened packets, but
> ethereal shows me extra garbage on the end.
> 
> Any ideas?

Can you post a small sample trace so others can load it into
ethereal?

What OS and NIC are you using? It is possible that you are seeing
a link-layer checksum on the end.

--gilbert