Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Feature request - TCP Retransmission labeling

[Kevin <kem2@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 02:30 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Kevin wrote:
>
> > Could the same type of feature be added to TCP Retransmission frames? 
> >  That is the frame number that is being retransmitted and possibly 
> > the delta time between them?
>
> It looks as if it identifies suspected retransmissions.
>
> However, in TCP, there isn't necessarily *a* frame that's being 
> retransmitted, although that might be the typical case - a frame could 
> retransmit data from several frames.  Ethereal currently doesn't 
> identify the frame or frames being retransmitted.

DOH!  You ar correct, not enough coffee today.  Could the frame that 
contains the segment(s) being retransmitted be identified?
> > Really stretching, in the original frame, could there be an indicator 
> > that says it was retransmitted?
>
> That might be possible as well, although you'd only get it in 
> Ethereal, not Tethereal (Tetheeal is, by design and intent, a 
> single-pass program).

Not a problem, limitations understood.
Kevin