showing checksum errors in network monitoring tools(tcpdump, wireshark, ethereal) on my network, why?

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Issue

  • Why is IPTraf showing checksum errors on my network?
  • tcpdump, wireshark or ethereal shows some cksum errors in it's output

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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