Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Is the hiding of protocol fields (e.g. badchecksum) in ge

[Andreas Sikkema <h323@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 23:01 -0400, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> On 7/8/05, packet steve <packetsteve@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Exposing derived values (e.g,. ip.checksum_bad) likely increases the 
> > vertical space used for verbose displays.  More scrolling around, more 
> > confusing to read.  Would the display add 4 lines?
> 
> No I meant that only one of these 
> booleans would be displayed at a time.
> Not all four, just one of them.

I'd make a tree like this

TCP
|
--- Checksum: Correct
    |
    --- Value: 0xad84 (correct)

The most important (IMHO) is to know if the checksm is correct, what
it's value is, is less important to the average user. Unless, of course,
you're a TCP stack developer ;-)


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Andreas Sikkema