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Re: why it happens short packet. Which network device is problem?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Dec 29 09:16:45 2009

Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:16:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Deric Kwok <deric.kwok2000@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <40d8a95a0912290456i211a9b4tae5fc8ca5658ea6f@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Deric Kwok wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I got the following message.
>
> UDP: bad checksum. From 67.204.26.203:1054 to 66.49.0.97:55290 ulen 43
> UDP: short packet: From 67.55.92.141:23801 30368/46 to 66.49.0.0:24617
>
> What is this meaning?

Possibly a switch somewhere between the src and dst systems is doing 
fast-forward switching, and collisions are causing partial packets to be 
transmitted?

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