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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] out of port numbers

From: Andrej van der Zee <andrejvanderzee@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:11:46 +0200
> I am seeings a lot of port-reuses in the tcpdumps. The tcpdump was
> captured on a Debian master that runs multiple Debian guests (Linux
> VServer). Among others, it runs a proxy and application server that
> setup a new connection for each HTTP request that is being served.

On this Linux VServer, I am seeing 20.401 reused ports (filter
tcp.analysis.reused_ports in Wireshark) in a 429 second tcpdump
sample. Is this value not extremely high?

Best regards,
Andrej