Hello,

I am using Wireshark to test gigabit ethernet hw that we will maybe use. I
have two issues now:

1: How good does Wireshark perform with gigabit ethernet? For example
occasionally I have a burst of "ACKed Lost Segment" packets (about a dozen,
sometimes more, sometimes less) coming from the hw we are testing. It looks
like erroneous behavior by the component I am testing since there is very
little time between these packets (some us's) but I wonder if maybe
wireshark might miss some packets?

2: What are the reasons for wireshark to classify a packet as malformed?
Occasionally there are packets in the dump that wireshark marks as
"Malformed packets", however I now took a closer look at one of these
packets and the LL, IP and TCP header look ok, the only things different
from another packet not marked as malformed are sequence/ACK number and the
checksum. Does wireshark interpret the contents of the TCP packet and mark
them as malformed if there are special characters in it? I did my tests with
files generated by dd'ing out of /dev/random, can this be the cause for this
message? The receiver TCP/IP stacks ACKs the packets as it should so there
seems to no big problem with this.

Thanks for answers,
sincerely Matthias Feurstein
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