Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Incorrect FCS

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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:14:45 -0500
Hi,

I've captured some Ethernet traces with Ethereal and on many of the ARP
replies, I see an FCS of 0x888888 which it indicates is incorrect. What I'm
trying to figure out is if this is real or being caused by the NIC on my
laptop. I tried using a hardware sniffer with promiscuous NICs and I don't
see this. 

Can incorrect FCS indications in Ethereal be caused by the NIC hardware /
driver used on the host machine Ethereal is running on?

Thanks,

Paul



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