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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Arp Trailer

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:08:58 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Thanks. 
Hanna


-----Original Message-----
>From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Oct 20, 2008 12:30 PM
>To: Community support list for Wireshark <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Arp Trailer
>
>Hi,
>
>ARP messages are 28 bytes long. Ethernet requires 64 octets on the wire, hence a 
>trailer is applied.
>Why don't you see the trailer on the ARP requests your hosts sends out? That is 
>probably because the trailer is appended after the frame has passed through the 
>capture layer. On the incoming ARP reply you see it because it's coming from the 
>wire.
>
>Thanx,
>Jaap
>
>Hanna Frangiyyeh wrote:
>> Hi;
>> There is a field when I capture arp packet called Trailer on the arp 
>> reply packet.  Any idea what that field is for.
>> Thanks
>> Hanna
>>  
>> 
>
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