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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] How does wireshark identify tcp streams

From: Bill Baltas <wbaltas@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 13:44:40 -0700
TCP streams are identified by the combination of 

Source IP address
Destination IP address
TCP port numbers (both source and destination)
Sequence numbers

Bill Baltas

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On May 22, 2011, at 12:00 PM, wireshark-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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> Hi, 
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> You forgot the TCP port numbers. 
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> On 21 mei 2011, at 20:48, Irfan Habib <irfan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> But those would be identical for all traffic b/w a single source/Dest Ip Address
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>> Best Regards,
>> Irfan
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>> On Saturday, 21 May 2011 at 19:15, Guy Harris wrote:
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>>> 
>>> On May 21, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Irfan Habib wrote:
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>>>> Wireshark assigns numbers to tcp streams in a pcap file and packets can be filtered based on that tcp stream number. My question is, what properties in a packet does wireshark use to determine which tcp stream it is part of?
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>>> Source and destination IP addresses and TCP port numbers.
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