https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4716
--- Comment #3 from Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> 2011-07-01 11:02:51 CEST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> But I also noticed that if the packet was a zero window probe, the single byte
> of data wasn't being displayed in the tree. The comments in the code indicated
> that "zwp contain too little data (1 byte) so why bother", but I disagree. I
> think Wireshark should display it even if it's only 1 byte.
Agreed.
> The comment also indicates that TCP keepalives just contain "garbage" so don't
> display that data either. I have left this part alone for now, but wonder if
> it might be worth displaying that too? The 1 byte of data, if present,
> *should* be garbage, but in theory could be used to transfer actual data.
Agreed, For a network analysis tool *nothing* is 'garbage'. It's in these
fields that new information can be found. That's why we should show reserved
and unknown data fields, padding, trailers, etc, etc.
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