Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Help with Output "TCP Dup ACK3#2 1320 > 22 ACK

From: "Visser, Martin" <martin.visser@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:04:34 +1000
Duplicate ACKs are fairly common, so they don't always indicate a problem. During normal congestion you will receive duplicate ACKs if the far end has not received a TCP segment it believes it should have. It also can be used to keep alive a connection.
 
However if you get dup ACKs consistently at the start of a connection it might mean that there is some sort of firewall ACL blocking traffic. As Stephen said, it is important to know where this occurs during the 3 way handshake at the beginning of a connection or later on.
 

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From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Ciccone
Sent: Saturday, 19 May 2007 7:57 AM
To: wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Wireshark-users] Help with Output "TCP Dup ACK3#2 1320 > 22 ACK


Hello,
I am having a problem with SSH.  I can ssh from some server but not others.  I verified that there are no access-lists blocking from doing this.  When I ran Wireshark on my pc and tried to ssh to the server I get the following line that could be telling me what the problem is. However, I don't understand it and was hoping some out there could explain it to me.

Here is the line:
[TCP Dup ACK 3#2] 1320 > 22 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 win=65535 Len=0

Does this mean anything to anyone?  I'm guessing my problem lies here.  If I ssh to a server that works... I don't see this line

Thanks

Mike C.