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Subject: Re: reading your email via tcpdump
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 00:34:32 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020319151601.4151A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> from "Richard B. Johnson" at Mar 19, 2002 03:19:55 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> 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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