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Re: Modify default settings?


From: Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 21:46:09 -0700

On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:03:04PM +1100, Martin Visser wrote:

One other default I think we should change is around TCP checksums. It 
seems so many people are now using NICs with various chimneys and 
offload processing that we get a lot of "false positives" from new 
users in the forums and the mailing list.

We turned off TCP and UDP checksum verification a few years ago:

  http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=24778

(based on the date, this probably first showed up in version 1.2)

But this reminds me: sometimes I see IP checksum offloading causing 
problems now, which we do still check by default.  We should probably 
disable this verification by default as well.



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