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By which of the following methods Wireshark detects TCP Retransmissions?

asked 2020-10-09 12:49:27 +0000

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updated 2020-10-09 13:03:50 +0000

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By which of the following methods Wireshark detects TCP Retransmissions?

  1. Sequence and Acknowledgement Numbers
  2. Windows Size Shifts
  3. Delta Time Delays
  4. Hop Counts

Note:kindly provide the answer with the appropriate explanation. Thank You.

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Presumably this is some sort of classwork, what do you think it is?

grahamb gravatar imagegrahamb ( 2020-10-09 13:04:12 +0000 )edit

Option 5 : It goes to Ask Wireshark and asks it to do it's homework for them.

hugo.vanderkooij gravatar imagehugo.vanderkooij ( 2020-10-09 13:18:40 +0000 )edit

No, I've just framed it as a mcq type of Q for trimming ambiguities. I just wanted to know how WS works with TCP packets and re-transmissions. Would it be possible for you to give an explanation on any one of those options?

hopcount gravatar imagehopcount ( 2020-10-09 13:20:35 +0000 )edit

Can you atleast comment about how? WS determines a tcp packet's priority? Does windows size determine these sequences?

hopcount gravatar imagehopcount ( 2020-10-09 13:30:12 +0000 )edit

You seem to be adding a supplementary question there about "priority"?

grahamb gravatar imagegrahamb ( 2020-10-09 13:32:39 +0000 )edit
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answered 2020-10-09 13:35:40 +0000

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As per the TCP RFC 793 retransmissions are detected by comparing sequence numbers and looking for overlaps with those already received (or in Wireshark's case a previous packet in the stream).

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about "priority" after comparing sequence of numbers, if windows scaling is enabled then what happens

hopcount gravatar imagehopcount ( 2020-10-09 13:54:17 +0000 )edit

Scaling has nothing to do with detecting retransmissions, it's all down to overlapping sequence numbers.

grahamb gravatar imagegrahamb ( 2020-10-09 14:42:36 +0000 )edit
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