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Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] Need Help Reading Capture

From: Chris Arnold <carnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:47:12 -0500 (EST)
Hello all! New to the list and wireshark. I am having problems with a client connection from the internet (my sonicwall tells me:
02/11/2013 14:11:29.576 Debug Network TCP connection abort received; TCP connection dropped 8.25.230.32, 49333, WAN 192.168.123.3, 443, LAN TCP Flag(s): ACK RST). So i ran wireshark and captured https traffic. I need help in determining which device (pc or sonicwall) is generating ACK RST. Can someone help me do that? Here is the start of the trouble connection and line 66 is the RST:

57	12.403536	pu.bl.ic.ip	192.168.123.3	TCP	49386 > https [SYN] Seq=0 Win=8192 Len=0 MSS=1332 WS=8 SACK_PERM=1 
58	12.403560	192.168.123.3	pu.bl.ic.ip	TCP	https > 49386 [SYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=14600 Len=0 MSS=1460 SACK_PERM=1 WS=6
59	12.448002	pu.bl.ic.ip	192.168.123.3	TCP	49386 > https [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=66560 Len=0
60	12.448387	pu.bl.ic.ip	192.168.123.3	TLSv1	Client Hello
61	12.448409	192.168.123.3	pu.bl.ic.ip	TCP	https > 49386 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=149 Win=15680 Len=0
62	12.448795	192.168.123.3	pu.bl.ic.ip	TLSv1	Server Hello, Change Cipher Spec, Encrypted Handshake Message
63	12.496943	pu.bl.ic.ip	192.168.123.3	TLSv1	Change Cipher Spec, Encrypted Handshake Message, Application Data
64	12.497212	192.168.123.3	192.168.123.4	TCP	47533 > https [FIN, ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=364 Len=0 TSV=73368246 TSER=1862090175
65	12.497255	192.168.123.3	192.168.123.4	TCP	47715 > https [SYN] Seq=0 Win=14600 Len=0 MSS=1460 SACK_PERM=1 TSV=73368246 TSER=0 WS=6
66	12.497404	192.168.123.4	192.168.123.3	TCP	HTTPS > 47533 [RST] SEQ=1 WIN=0 LEN=0
67	12.497430	192.168.123.4	192.168.123.3	TCP	https > 47715 [SYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=14480 Len=0 MSS=1460 SACK_PERM=1 TSV=1863224474 TSER=73368246 WS=6

Basically whats happening here is a connection from the internet to the sonicwall. Sonicwall passes to 192.168.123.3 and 192.168.123.3 proxies to 192.168.123.4.

My question is how do i find out what device is generating the ACK RST (line 66)?
I would be happy to send the complete log for further inspection.