Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Checksum errors

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

C.J. Proffitt wrote:

>             I’ve been an ethereal user for several years and have not 
> had one once of trouble out of it up until now. The platform is windows 
> server 2003 SBS and the problem is the server (which is also the machine 
> the software is installed on) generates checksum errors according to 
> ethereal version 10.14. Before I upgraded the server from version 10.12, 
> there were no checksum errors. Now after removing 10.14 and reinstalling 
> 10.12 (including winpccap) I still get checksum errors. This is present 
> on another windows 2003 SBS server I administer. Checksum errors seem to 
> prevail in file and printer sharing protocols (port 445, etc.)

Are the checksum errors only on packets being sent by the machine 
running Ethereal?

If so, see:

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q11.1