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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Wondering about TCP checksum errors in AFP-over-TCP

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:03:33 -0600
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 06:52:16PM +0200, Anders Broman wrote:
> Kok-Yong Tan skrev 2011-03-27 16:51:

> > It says that "Wireshark 1.2 and above disable IP, TCP and UDP 
> > checksum by default."  Does this mean that it disables checksum 
> > [validation] by default?  If so, note that I'm running Wireshark 
> > 1.4.3 with default settings on a MacOS X 10.5.8 system and I'm still 
> > seeing the TCP checksum errors.

> If you upgraded from an earlier version your (old)preferences will be 
> retained...

I added the words "New installations of" to the sentence on the Wiki 
about Wireshark 1.2+ disable these validations by default for clarity.