Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] corrupt frames

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From: Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:58:45 -0500
At 01:36 PM 3/18/2005, Nickeson, Scott T CIV N25-BRANCH wrote:

>Hello All, 
>
>I'm a new Ethereal user, so please excuse my rudimentary questions ... 
>
>How does Ethereal handle corrupt frames it encounters during capture - capture or drop? 
>Does Ethereal report a 'corrupt frames encountered' statistic? 


You need NIC drivers that can pass it up to Ethereal.  But more important than that, old Cabletron MMACs were the only switches (that I know) that has the option of forwarding malformed frames to the mirror/span port.  So unless you are using a true hub or have MMAC switches, you'll never see the frame level errors.

hsb