Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] [semi-OT] request second opinion on possible bugs in OS TC

From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:05:50 +0100
On 17 jan 2011, at 06:27, Alan Tu wrote:

> For the difficult connection, the client correctly increments its
> TSval value. If the ACKs from the client were being received by the
> server, the TSecr sent by the server would be incremented per #2
> above. However, the server's TSecr consistently refers to the TSval of
> the packet containing the HTTP GET request. Therefore it stands to
> reason the server is not receiving any additional ACK.

Nice :-)

I never thought of checking the timestamps to validate my hypothesis, we learn every day, thanks!

Oh BTW, you can output the timestamps with:

tshark -r sack_fail.pcap -T fields -e tcp.options.timestamp.tsval -e tcp.options.timestamp.tsecr

Cheers,


Sake