Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Protocol Hierarchy

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:26:25AM +0000, Surena K.D. wrote:
> Attached is the protocol hierarchy from tools menu. I ran 
> ethereal in "non-promisc" mode and then got a file with ftp. I shutdown all 
> other applications so the tcp traffic is mostly for ftp transfer. The result 
> is shown in attached file. The tcp protocol is 25% of all traffic but the 
> sum of the categories under it is about 16.5%.

How many of the packets 54 that were classified as TCP packets, but not
as FTP packets or FTP data packets, were ACK-only packets? Ethereal does
*NOT* classify ACK-only packets as FTP packets, or FTP data packets, or
NFS packets, or anything such as that.