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Packet Analysis with Wireshark

You're reading from   Packet Analysis with Wireshark Leverage the power of Wireshark to troubleshoot your networking issues by using effective packet analysis techniques and performing improved protocol analysis

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785887819
Length 172 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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ANISH NATH ANISH NATH
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Wireshark TCP sequence analysis


Wireshark has a built-in filter, tcp.analysys.flags, that will show you packets that have some kind of expert message from Wireshark; tcp.analysis.flags is shown in the TCP section of the Packet Details pane. Under that, expand SEQ/ACK analysis then expand TCP Analysis Flags. This will tell you exactly what triggered tcp.analysis.flags. A few examples include:

  • TCP Retransmission

  • TCP Fast Retransmission

  • TCP DupACK

  • TCP ZeroWindow

  • TCP ZeroWindowProbe

TCP retransmission

TCP makes the transmission of segments reliable via sequence number and acknowledgement. When TCP transmits a segment containing data, it puts a copy on a retransmission queue and starts a timer; when the acknowledgment for that data is received, the segment is deleted from the queue. If the acknowledgment is not received before the timer runs out, the segment is retransmitted. During TCP retransmission, the sequence number is not changed until the retransmission timeout happens.

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