Hi Gilbert Ramirez <gramirez@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Gilbert, some answers below. BTW, I get a bounce using the address
gramirez@xxxxxxxxxx.
At 04:23 PM 5/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was chasing down some invalid packet lengths in dissect_tftp, and it
>> seems to me that all ethernet packets have an FCS on the end, and in a lot
>> of cases we are treating it as data, which screws things up.
>>
>> Am I correct in this? If so, I suspect that we need to deal with it.
>>
>> However, packets captured from the loopback interface do not seem to have
>> an FCS.
>
>Which operating system and ethernet NIC are you using? Also, is this
>from a libpcap capture (that is, generated from ethereal or tcpdump)?
Libpcap, Linux, Xircom PS2CE PCMCIA ...
>--gilbert
Regards
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