Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Can I see packets with incorrect CRC?

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From: "Robinson, Eric R." <erobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:34:54 -0700
As far as I am aware, this depends on the Ethernet card driver. Some custom
drivers can be tuned to pass bad frames up the stack instead of discarding
them.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joerg Mayer [mailto:jmayer@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 11:41 AM
> To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] Can I see packets with incorrect CRC?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> just a question that popped up: Does Ethereal capture Ethernet frames
> with an incorrect CRC?
> Current libpcap, current Linux 2.4 kernel.
> 
> Thanks
>     Jörg
> -- 
> Joerg Mayer                                           
> <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just 
> stuff that
> works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
> 
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