Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] CRC-check incorrect with win2000 if traffic goes to the own

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:44:59 -0800
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:05:07PM +0100, hans-joachim.behnke@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> There are two way to circumvent this trouble is, if possible, to
> reconfigure the network card. 
> 
> the second way is to switch off the offloading feature by introducing
> the value "DisableTaskOffload" at the registry as follows:

Well, another option is, as per my mail, to disable checksum checking in
Ethereal; that means that it doesn't report checksum errors, but it also
means the host running Ethereal doesn't spend CPU time and bus bandwidth
computing TCP checksums.