That was it! Thanks On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 17:22 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: > I had this experience and on researching it learned that the drivers > for gigabit ethernet setups defer the checksum calculation to > hardware. So when your software tells it to send a packet, the driver > does not compute the checksum, the chip does. Problem is that when > you use a capture utility like ethereal it sees the packet before the > chip does and reports the error. That is why it is "normal" to see > this. > > I would believe that netstat queries the hardware and that is why the > hardware reports no errors. > > On 4/21/06, Tony Wasson wrote: > > On 4/21/06, Shawn Badger wrote: > > > I am seeing TCP checksum errors on one of my servers via Ethereal. I > > > have Googled looking for ways diagnose and correct the problem, but I > > > have found none. I checked with "netstat -a -i eth0" and saw no RX > > > errors, so I am left to wonder if it is the network, the multiple > > > servers I get the errors from or the server I am monitoring. So I am > > > hoping someone out there can point me in the right direction. > > > > > > > If you are doing your packet capture from your server, this is normal. > > http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q11.1 > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > > Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. > - James M. Barrie > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss