Re: [Ethereal-users] Packet Length calculation is odd ???

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Nevermind, I see it! The extra 14 bytes is the ethernet header above
> and beyond the IP.

Yup, the 1500 is the maximum *payload* size (MTU) of an Ethernet packet.
The maximum Ethernet packet size is 1518: 14 bytes of header, 1500
bytes of payload, and 4 bytes of CRC.