Re: TCP checksum is regarded as incorrect by wireshark, but still accepted by TCP stack

[Stefan <netfortius () gmail com>]

http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html#q11.1
On Jun 16, 2013 6:12 PM, "wen lui" <esolvepolito () gmail com> wrote:

> I captured a TCP connection packets on a virtual NIC(openvpn)
> I notice for some TCP packets, the TCP checksum is wrong(hilighted as red)
> but still these packets are accepted by TCP stack (they got ACKed)
> why?
>
> maybe the wireshark TCP checksum detection is wrong?
> or TCP stack doesn't care TCP checksum?
> thanks!
>
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