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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Help..

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:23:17 -0700
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:33:43PM +0530, Babu A wrote:

> I have recently started using Wireshark and I need to understand and 
> analyze the error messages better... Can any one point me to a 
> location where I can get information... the current type errors that I 
> would like to interpret are:
> 
> 1.	Out-of-Order
> 2.	Previous Segment Lost
> 3.	Dup ack
> 4.	TCP Windows Update
> 5.	TCP Retransmission

Check out http://wiki.wireshark.org/TCP and 
http://wiki.wireshark.org/TCP_Analyze_Sequence_Numbers and let us know 
what other questions you have.  Any good book that covers TCP should 
also cover these topics in detail.


Steve