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

Jon Lewis jlewis at lewis.org
Tue Dec 29 14:16:12 UTC 2009


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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