Wireshark · Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] TCP packets greater than 1516 bytes

[Deborah Charan <dcharan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am looking at TCP traffic between two machines.  I would like to see 
the actual packets, I don't want to see the whole stream, but instead 
would like to know the actual number of packets.  Since this is over 
ethernet, the max size per packet should be ~1514 bytes. 

My TCP packets have 10K or 8K ...  I upgraded to Wireshark 1.2.1, I have 
unchecked the TCP preference for "Allow subdisectors to reassemble TCP 
streams", I have tried disabling TCP and IP dissection altogether, and 
still the packets are thousands of bytes.  Of course the ACKs are small, 
and every packet is not huge, but I just want to see the packets. 

I'm running on Ubuntu if that is important.

Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Debbie Charan