Hey John…
I actually leave the checksum
error checking on and disable the Checksum Error color filter (not deleted, but
disabled) as THAT is the most annoying thing of all here.
Ya know… if there really is a
TCP checksum errors and the receiving TCP dumps the cruddy packet, you’ll see
retransmissions – if your retransmissions don’t seem to be caused by timeouts
waiting for ACKs or packet loss then just keep the TCP checksum idea in the
back of your head (my head can’t hold that information, hence the checksum validation
is on, but the colorization is disabled).
Laura
chappellU.com
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Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:00 AM
To: 'wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [Wireshark-users] Disabling TCP Checksum
To avoid the TCP checksum errors for my own machine, I
disabled the box that says “Validate the TCP Checksum when possible” under
Preferences/Protocols/TCP.
My question is, although this clears up my traces from
constantly getting the “TCP Checksum Error”, are there any cons that I am
opening myself up to by changing this setting and should be aware of?
Thanks
John