Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ip packet error rate

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:56:36 -0800
Peyrusse Olivier-r49444 wrote:
I would want to get the packet error rate at IP level when doing a data transfer. 

What sort of errors are you interested in?
Ethereal probably won't be able to report link-layer errors, unless whatever hardware and capture mechanism Ethereal is using can deliver packets with a bad link-layer CRC (most don't).
Packets with IP or TCP/UDP-layer checksum errors will probably be captured, and there might be a way to use the I/O graph mechanism, or some other such mechanism, in Ethereal to report the rate of checksum errors in a capture.