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

[Richard van der Hoff <richardv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:48:18AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> 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.

damn it, I knew there must have been a CRC-16 function somewhere! Still,
it's good that it's been factored out to a separate file now.

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Richard van der Hoff <richardv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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