Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] TCP sequence number
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From: Ian Schorr <ian.schorr@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:44:26 +1100
Rayne, this is a feature called "Relative sequence numbers", intended to make reading and comparing TCP sequence numbers a little easier.  To turn this feature off, uncheck Preferences->Protocols->TCP->Relative sequence numbers and window scaling.

In many cases (most of the time for me), you don't really care what the REAL sequence number is.  You just need to know how how the value of the sequence number in one packet relates to another.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Rayne <hjazz6@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would like to know how Wireshark reads the sequence number. I have a packet with the Sequence number displayed as 3273, but the corresponding bytes are "2e b2 cf 43". How did Wireshark get 3273 from 2e b2 cf 43?