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Network errors using Windows 7

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I have two identical Asus motherboards: One running Windows XP, the other running Windows 7. When I run Wireshark on the WinXP machine I get approx' 1 error in 10,000 packets.

When I run Wireshark on the Win7 machine I get over 3,500 errors in 10,000 packets.

I've tried swapping the hard drives from one machine to the other but problem moves with the O/S. It seem to be the Win7 PC that creates a huge number of errors while the WinXP machine creates very few.

Any clues to this would be useful

asked 04 Jan '11, 07:35

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edited 29 Feb '12, 18:51

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Did you check your duplex setting on the Win7 box? To make sure that it matches whatever is set on your switch?

(04 Jan '11, 08:22) hansangb

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What kind of errors are you talking about? Checksum errors? It could be that the Win7 network driver does TCP checksum offloading while the XP driver doesn't.

Have a look at: http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Offloading

answered 04 Jan '11, 08:42

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Oy! I should have thought of that. That's probably it!

(04 Jan '11, 10:52) hansangb