Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Feature request - TCP Retransmission labeling

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:30:20 -0700

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Kevin wrote:
Could the same type of feature be added to TCP Retransmission frames? That is the frame number that is being retransmitted and possibly the delta time between them? 

It looks as if it identifies suspected retransmissions.
However, in TCP, there isn't necessarily *a* frame that's being retransmitted, although that might be the typical case - a frame could retransmit data from several frames. Ethereal currently doesn't identify the frame or frames being retransmitted.
Really stretching, in the original frame, could there be an indicator that says it was retransmitted?
That might be possible as well, although you'd only get it in Ethereal, not Tethereal (Tetheeal is, by design and intent, a single-pass program).