Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] How does wireshark identify tcp streams?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 11:15:29 -0700
On May 21, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Irfan Habib wrote:

> Wireshark assigns numbers to tcp streams in a pcap file and packets can be filtered based on that tcp stream number.  My question is, what properties in a packet does wireshark use to determine which tcp stream it is part of?

Source and destination IP addresses and TCP port numbers.