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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7043] Wireshark doesn't calculate the right IPv4 destinati

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:54:28 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7043

--- Comment #3 from boaz.brickner@xxxxxxxxx 2012-04-10 02:54:27 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Fixed in trunk (along with some other option fixes) in r41994.  Fixed in
> > trunk-1.6 in r41995 and scheduled for 1.6.8.  Also scheduled for back-porting
> > to 1.4.13.
> 
> I should note that with the capture file attached to this bug report, the IP
> header checksum is still indicated as invalid by Wireshark, even after the fix.
>  I assume this is due to IP checksum offload though, as Wireshark also
> indicates.  If the IP header checksum is incorrect and IP checksum offload is
> not the cause, then additional code changes may be required to fix this.
I believe IP header checksum is actually wrong in this packet and this is not a
bug and shouldn't be affected by the fix.
> 
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Currently, bad IPv4 options that I know of are internet timestamp with length <
> > 5 and basic security with length != 11.
> > As far as I know, both of these options should be considered ok according to
> > their RFCs, but this is a separate less critical bug.
> 
> I also meant to comment on this earlier ... according to my reading of RFC 791,
> the basic security length is supposed to be exactly 11 bytes long.  Where does
> it say otherwise that a length != 11 is OK?
RFC 1108, which is the RFC iana.org points to for this IP option.

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