Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] CRC check

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:32:27 -0700
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:45:44PM +0530, Asif Mohamed - CTD, Chennai. wrote:
>     I have captured an ethernet frame and what to check for CRC(FCS) of the
> IEEE 802.3 frame.But Ethereal does not show the FCS.Is there any way capture
> the FCS ???

No.  I have yet to see any system on which the Ethernet drivers supply
the CRC to the operating system or add-on packet capture mechanism that
the libpcap or WinPcap library uses, and that's the library Ethereal
uses to capture packets.