Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Fwd: [Ethereal-users] Decoding of TCP sequence numbers contained within ICMP messages

[Bjorn Townsend <eriktown@xxxxxxxxx>]

Forgot to cc: this to the list...

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:51:50 -0800, Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If by "decoded" you mean "displayed as a sequence number or ack number",
> that's not by design - and the only obvious thing I can see in the code
> that would cause it would be the requirement that the entire TCP header
> (not counting options) be present in the packet.  Is that the problem?

That's what I meant, yes. Thank you for the clarification. :)

Is sequence number analysis even needed in this case? It would be
sufficient just to translate the value into decimal notation and
display it, at least for my purposes.


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