Bad Checksum Error Tcp
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Bad Checksum Error In Wireshark
can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you
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can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. CloudFlare Ray ID: 2eb38dc079bf3054 • Your IP: 104.168.7.108 • Performance & security by CloudFlare
What https://ask.wireshark.org/questions/25120/90-or-more-of-my-packets-are-bad-checksum can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users/200802/msg00092.html can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. CloudFlare Ray ID: 2eb38dc06ea227ec • Your IP: 104.168.7.108 • Performance & security by CloudFlare
9 Comments If you've ever tried to trace a UDP or TCP stream by using the tcpdump tool on Linux then you may have noticed https://sokratisg.net/2012/04/01/udp-tcp-checksum-errors-from-tcpdump-nic-hardware-offloading/ that all, or at least most, packets indicate checksum errors. This is caused because you have checksum offloading on your network card (NIC) and tcpdump reads IP packets from the Linux http://packetlife.net/blog/2008/aug/23/disabling-checksum-validation-wireshark/ kernel right before the actual checksum takes place in the NIC's chipset. That's why you only see errors in tcpdump and your network traffic works ok. So, just to prove my checksum error point, here is a tcpdump output while monitoring DNS traffic (udp/53) $ sudo tcpdump -i eth0 -vvv -nn udp dst port 53 tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 17:04:48.145904 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 61) 10.0.0.2.56497 > 10.0.0.1.53: [bad udp cksum 0x8f54 -> 0xb8fc!] 30234+ AAAA? www.twitter.com. bad checksum error (33) 17:04:48.145925 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 61) 10.0.0.2.56497 > 10.0.0.1.53: [bad udp cksum 0x224d -> 0x2604!] 30234+ AAAA? www.twitter.com. (33) After checking active NIC hardware offloading options you can see the obvious $ sudo ethtool -k eth0 | grep on rx-checksumming: on tx-checksumming: on scatter-gather: on generic-segmentation-offload: on generic-receive-offload: on rx-vlan-offload: on tx-vlan-offload: on After disabling TCO (tcp offloading) for TX/RX on the NIC the problem is gone $ sudo ethtool -K eth0 tx off rx off $ sudo tcpdump -i eth0 -vvv -nn udp dst port 53 tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 17:06:09.355411 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 57) 10.0.0.2.18964 > 10.0.0.1.53: [udp sum ok] 292+ AAAA? twitter.com. (29) 17:06:09.355431 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 57) 10.0.0.2.18964 > 10.0.0.1.53: [udp sum ok] 292+ AAAA? twitter.com. (29) For the sake of performance, remember to turn TCO back on after each tcpdump execution. ;-) If you s
any amount of time you've likely been annoyed by false error markings as seen here: Notice that all UDP packets generated by the local host (10.144.246.184) are displayed in red and black in the list view, and the details pane cites an incorrect checksum. The reason for this, as explained in the Wireshark wiki, is checksum offloading. Modern high-speed NICs support hardware checksum calculation for TCP and UDP. By performing these calculations in dedicated hardware, the burden is removed from the main CPU. This means the correct checksum value for an outgoing packet is applied only after Wireshark has captured its copy from the software TCP/IP stack, producing false error warnings in its output. The obvious solution to this problem is to disable hardware checksum calculation, but that may cause performance problems, particularly under high throughput. Fortunately, there is a more appropriate solution: disable checksum validation in Wireshark. This can be accomplished by navigating to Edit > Preferences and expanding the Protocols list in the left pane to locate the TCP and UDP protocols. Under the options for each, uncheck the box enabling checksum validation. After applying these changes, you'll have a much cleaner output in the list pane, allowing easier identification of real problems. About the Author Jeremy Stretch is a network engineer living in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area. He is known for his blog and cheat sheets here at Packet Life. You can reach him by email or follow him on Twitter. Posted in Packet Analysis, Tips and Tricks Comments Gunnar (guest) August 23, 2008 at 11:08 a.m. UTC Thank you! This has been bugging me for ever :) Paul Stewart (guest) August 23, 2008 at 2:12 p.m. UTC One of the most annoying things about checksum validation, is that when you follow a TCP stream,