Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Verifying TCP checksum

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:04:06 -0800 (PST)
> I'm using ethereal 0.8.14 under Linux and I need to verifiy the validity
> of the TCP checksum on the packets I capture, but Ethereal does not seem
> to have such a feature. I've seen Ethereal has a plugin facility. Does
> someone know if a plugin could be used for this purpose,

You'd have to change the actual TCP dissector, so you're plugin would
have to be a replacement TCP dissector.