Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] IP and TCP Checksum errors

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:14:30 -0800
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:43:12AM -0600, Ahmed, Munaf (RDI) wrote:
> I am using Ethereal version 0.10.1(C) with WinPcap 3.0.
> When I capture network traffic Ethereal every alternate packet
> has IP and TCP checksum errors (bad checksum).

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.14

If the network interface also does IP checksumming, the same applies to
those checksums.