Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Capturing error packets

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From: Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:02:08 -0400
On 02:02 PM 7/5/2004, Dilan Arumainathan wrote:
>Hi,
>I have read that NIC drivers filter out packets with physical errors. Is
>there a list of supported network cards/drivers that can be used to capture
>error packets (CRC errors etc) on either Windows or Linux. Also if Ethereal
>sees error packets can it report the error conditions detected within the
>packet. I am looking to baseline the errors on our LAN segments.


The problem is that most modern day switches will not forward errored frames.  The only one that I know of that can do this is (was!) Cabletron switches.  Even the lower models had the option of forwarding errored frames.

hsb