Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] SEQ Number

[Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10:33 PM 5/1/2005, Al Stu wrote:
>While capturing TCP the sequence number (Seq=xxxxxxxxxxx) is displayed in the upper pane for each packet summary.  But when the capture file is reopened Seq=0 is displayed, even though when looking inside the TCP portion of the packet it's something like 6d cf 1e ec.
> 
>How do I get the SEQ number to be displayed in the summary pane when viewing a previous capture file?


Ronnie already answered you question.  But when you analyze lot of traffic, relative seq numbers can come in handy.  It's easier to keep track of 500, 650, 795 then 23451634534, 23451635534, 23451635934  etc.

But as of now, the relative seq numbering doesn't work within TCP analysis section (for things like SACK etc.)

hsb