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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Will EMF interference show up in Wireshark?

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:29:44 -0700
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:10:26PM -0800, Larry Dieterich wrote:

> Would EMF interference manifest on the wire?

It may.

> If so, what sorts of packets or patterns should I be looking for in 
> Wireshark?

You won't see it because the computer you're capturing traffic on will 
drop corrupt frames (detected using the 4-byte CRC32 at the end of each 
frame) before you see them.

> Does it seem unlikely that a problem related to EMF would only affect 
> one software process on one computer?

Yes.