Re: reading your email via tcpdump

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 20 Mar 2002 00:34:32 +0000 (GMT)


> The data sent/received on the network is precious. You will not have
> any 'extra' data on its end except for possibly a single byte if the
> data didn't have an even length. Note that these things are checksummed
> and also CRCed in the hardware.

Wrong for ethernet. Ethernet has a minimum frame size

Alan
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