FYI,

  I am trying to open a Unix snoop on the Ehtereal, from a Sun Sparc 9 box...

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 Guy Harris wrote :
>
>On Feb 2, 2004, at 8:28 PM, Jonty Ray wrote:
>
>>  Have Ethereal 0.10.1 and The h225 setup msg appears as unreassembled packet ( 
>> incorrect TCP check sum )
>
>You're probably capturing traffic being sent by the machine running Ethereal, and the 
>machine probably has a network interface that does checksum offloading.  Packets sent 
>on an interface that does checksum offloading, when they're captured by the machine 
>sending the packet, don't have a valid checksum - the host hasn't given the packet a 
>checksum, as it's letting the network interface do that.
>
>Select "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu, open up the "Protocols" list, select 
>"TCP", turn off the "Check the validity of the TCP checksum when possible" option, 
>and click "OK" (click "Save" before you click "OK" if you want this to be your 
>default setting).
>
>That causes Ethereal not to check whether the TCP checksum is valid on a packet, so 
>that it'll be willing to reassemble higher-level packets across TCP segment 
>boundaries even if the checksum appears to be bad.
>
>>  All other msgs like call proceeding and alerting appear fine.
>
>Those messages are probably small enough that they don't cross TCP segment boundaries.
>


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