[SLL] How to troubleshoot corrupted wget/apt-get/bittorrent file transfers?

Robert Woodcock rcw at blarg.net
Mon Mar 9 21:30:44 PDT 2009


On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 07:01:57PM -0700, Phil Mocek wrote:
> I fired up Wireshark, told it to watch eth0, and saw tons and tons
> of errors scrolling by.  I stopped after a few minutes.  "Analyze
> -> expert info composite" reports two errors: about 25,000 TCP bad
> checksums and about 1400 UDP bad checksums.

You're probably safer assuming these are false positives. I see them all the
time on perfectly functional networks with Wireshark.
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