Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] out of order packets

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From: Peter Bruno <brunopeter2001@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 12:33:45 -0700 (PDT)
Further details:  running version 0.99.0 and WinPcap
version 4.0 alpha1 (same behavior with previous
version (non-Beta) of WinPcap).

1) A -> B [TCP Previous segment lost] Continuation or
non-HTTP traffic
2) A <- B [TCP Dup ACK] SLE=### SRE=###
3) A -> B [TCP Fast Retransmission] [TCP segment of a
reassembled PDU]

Peter

Peter Bruno wrote:
> If packets are recieved out of order (determined by
> looking at the IP Identification),

Or, presumably, by looking at the TCP sequence
number...

> they are flagged as
> 'TCP Previous segment lost' and then the next packet
> as 'TCP Fast Retransmission'.
>
> Is it possible to disable this part of the TCP
> analysis without having to turn off all analysis?

Not as far as I know - but the TCP analysis should
handle OOO packets
correctly.  For example, "TCP Previous segment lost"
should perhaps be
"TCP Previous segment lost or out of order".

Ronnie, when did the rewritten TCP analysis go in, and
did it fix these
problems?

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