diff options
author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2002-05-05 22:25:14 +0000 |
---|---|---|
committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2002-05-05 22:25:14 +0000 |
commit | ded6d3e2f4a3c25368b5bd83840e15fdf0679ad3 (patch) | |
tree | a0a3697c971cd0c8c7ea60380a6e6ef12bbcf8ee /packet-tcp.c | |
parent | 133f4e981fc99035633fa2fb8feca790c7de86cc (diff) |
Improve a comment.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=5399
Diffstat (limited to 'packet-tcp.c')
-rw-r--r-- | packet-tcp.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/packet-tcp.c b/packet-tcp.c index 0ed8e922d3..d0481420d7 100644 --- a/packet-tcp.c +++ b/packet-tcp.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* packet-tcp.c * Routines for TCP packet disassembly * - * $Id: packet-tcp.c,v 1.141 2002/05/05 00:57:57 guy Exp $ + * $Id: packet-tcp.c,v 1.142 2002/05/05 22:25:14 guy Exp $ * * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer * By Gerald Combs <gerald@ethereal.com> @@ -58,13 +58,15 @@ static gboolean tcp_summary_in_tree = TRUE; /* - * Don't check the TCP checksum (I've seen packets with bad TCP checksums - * in Solaris network traces, but the traffic appears to indicate that - * the packet *was* received; I suspect the packets were sent by the host - * on which the capture was being done, on a network interface to which + * Flag to control whether to check the TCP checksum. + * + * In at least some Solaris network traces, there are packets with bad + * TCP checksums, but the traffic appears to indicate that the packets + * *were* received; the packets were probably sent by the host on which + * the capture was being done, on a network interface to which * checksumming was offloaded, so that DLPI supplied an un-checksummed * packet to the capture program but a checksummed packet got put onto - * the wire). + * the wire. */ static gboolean tcp_check_checksum = TRUE; |