diff --git a/src/PcapTools.jl b/src/PcapTools.jl
index 2299d36..5c5abcd 100644
--- a/src/PcapTools.jl
+++ b/src/PcapTools.jl
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export PcapReader, PcapStreamReader, PcapBufferReader
 export PcapWriter, PcapStreamWriter
 export LINKTYPE_NULL, LINKTYPE_ETHERNET
 export splitcap
+export pcap_has_fcs, ETHERNET_FCS_LENGTH
 
 abstract type PcapReader end
 abstract type PcapWriter end
@@ -22,5 +23,6 @@ include("buffer_reader.jl")
 include("stream_reader.jl")
 include("stream_writer.jl")
 include("splitcap.jl")
+include("fcs.jl")
 
 end
diff --git a/src/fcs.jl b/src/fcs.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f12278e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/fcs.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+const ETHERNET_MIN_LENGTH = 64
+const ETHERNET_FCS_LENGTH = 4
+
+"""
+    pcap_has_fcs(::PcapReader)
+
+Heuristically determine whether captured frames contain Ethernet FCS or not.
+Unfortunately, PCAP format doesn't provide this information explicitly.
+"""
+function pcap_has_fcs(reader::PcapReader)
+    mark(reader)
+    try
+        while !eof(reader)
+            record = read(reader)
+
+            hdr = record.header
+            # In case of min-length packets we can't be certain whether they have FCS or not.
+            hdr.orig_len <= ETHERNET_MIN_LENGTH && continue
+
+            ep = decode_ethernet(record.data)
+            ep.header.ethertype != ETHERTYPE_IPV4 && continue
+
+            ipp = decode_ipv4(ep.payload)
+            if ipp.header.total_length + sizeof(EthernetHeader) + ETHERNET_FCS_LENGTH == hdr.orig_len
+                return true
+            elseif ipp.header.total_length + sizeof(EthernetHeader) == hdr.orig_len
+                return false
+            end
+        end
+        # if we couldn't read single IP packet, it doesn't really matter what to return
+        return false
+    catch e
+        if e isa EOFError
+            return false
+        else
+            rethrow()
+        end
+    finally
+        reset(reader)
+    end
+end
+