Chapter 9. UDP/TCP Analysis

This chapter contains the following recipes:

  • Configuring TCP and UDP preferences for troubleshooting
  • TCP connection problems
  • TCP retransmissions – where they come from and why
  • Duplicate ACKs and fast retransmissions
  • TCP out-of-order packet events
  • TCP Zero Window, Window Full, Window Change, and other Window indicators
  • TCP resets and why they happen

Introduction

The goal of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is to pass information between end applications, for example, from a web client to a web server, mail client to a mail server, and so on. This is done by providing identification to end applications and forwarding packets between them. These identifications are called port numbers, and a ...

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