Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] Packet Length:1284 instead of expected 1280

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:40:12 -0800
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:25:15PM +0000, Audsin wrote:
> But my ethereal capture says the packet length to be 1284 btyes. Can anyone 
> please let me know what that 4 bytes is accounted for?

It's the Null/Loopback header - as I already explained to you in private
mail in response to your freebsd-atm mail message on this topic.