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

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Andreas Sikkema wrote:

>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 ;-)
>
Yes, the "correct" information is the most important one, but I don't
like the idea to "hide" the real packet values from the user.

That would be different to the behaviour of all other dissectors I know
of (although there might be some, as we have a lot of them :-).

Regards, ULFL