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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2002-05-05 22:25:14 +0000
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2002-05-05 22:25:14 +0000
commitded6d3e2f4a3c25368b5bd83840e15fdf0679ad3 (patch)
treea0a3697c971cd0c8c7ea60380a6e6ef12bbcf8ee /packet-tcp.c
parent133f4e981fc99035633fa2fb8feca790c7de86cc (diff)
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diff --git a/packet-tcp.c b/packet-tcp.c
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--- 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;