Malformed packet

Wireshark
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Hi Sirs,

Greetings!

I am new with this wireshark.
I just want to gent your 2 cents about Malformed Packet. What does this mean? And how will i be able to know the source of this?

Thanks in advance.

Danilo

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Hello,

Malformed Packet means that the software who read/interpret the data inside the packet does NOT understand it.
It could be :

  • bug in the software
  • not up-to-date software
  • bad data in packet
    …

Note that a message could be sent/received on many packets.
Then the software will NOT understand the message if :

  • your capture does not contain all packets (especially the 1st ones)
  • you have TCP cheksum problems (-> uncheck Edit / Preferences / Protocols / TCP / Validate checksum)

What does this mean?

Olivier