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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] crc16

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 02:48:18 -0700
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:32:05AM +0100, Richard van der Hoff wrote:
> As the last in my miniseries of submissions for tonight, I present a 
> function to calculate a 16-bit crc, with tables for the CRC used by the 
> CCITT/ITU.
> 
> It might be useful to somebody...

It's useful for the PPP dissector, although it already had a CRC-16
function; it appears that your function can replace the one in the PPP
dissector, so I've changed the PPP dissector to use it.