Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] TCP Framentation bug?

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From: Jason House <jhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:50:46 -0500
Biot Olivier wrote:
> 
> Agreed but only partially. If the trace is taken on some SUN Solaris
> machines from which the TCP traffic is originating, then all sent TCP
> packets will probably have a bad TCP checksum.


This sounds really odd to me...  If a SUN Solaris machine transmits
packets with bad checksums, the packets should never end up with good
checksums, and whoever it tries to talk to should chuck the TCP
packets...  What am I missing here?