Error events and what we can understand from them

In this recipe, we will dive into error and event types, checksum errors, malformed packets, and other types of errors.

Getting ready

Start a capture, or open an existing file and start the expert system.

How to do it...

1. From the Analyze menu, open Expert Information. Errors are listed at the top of the window:

In the preceding window that is brought as an example, you can see checksum errors; in this case, it can be because of real errors or offload.

2. Clicking on a specific error takes us to the packet pane to see the...