Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Packet Loss

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From: "Blake Leslie" <elppa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:25:17 -0600
Hello,
 
I'm a new user to Ethereal and was wondering how the program measures Packet Loss, viewed in the Statistics window.  If Ethereal doesn't know exactly what was sent by the source device, how can it give a lost packets value?  Thanks a lot!
 
-Blake