Wireshark TCP sequence analysis

Wireshark has a built-in filter, tcp.analysys.flags, that will show you packets that have some kind of expert message from Wireshark; tcp.analysis.flags is shown in the TCP section of the Packet Details pane. Under that, expand SEQ/ACK analysis then expand TCP Analysis Flags. This will tell you exactly what triggered tcp.analysis.flags. A few examples include:

  • TCP Retransmission
  • TCP Fast Retransmission
  • TCP DupACK
  • TCP ZeroWindow
  • TCP ZeroWindowProbe

TCP retransmission

TCP makes the transmission of segments reliable via sequence number and acknowledgement. When TCP transmits a segment containing data, it puts a copy on a retransmission queue and starts a timer; when the acknowledgment for that data is received, the segment ...

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