Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] what does the TCP stream mean in wireshark

[nangergong <nangergong@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Those sessions should be treated as separate. This has been implemented a few years ago already. Which version of Wireshark are you using?

Cheers,

Sake

On 23 mei 2012, at 16:31, nangergong wrote:

yes

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:22 PM, <kcullimo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] what does the TCP stream mean in wireshark

> I used a mobile browser in a HTC smartphone to access some websites and I
> used wireshark to capture the packets between the mobile browser and the
> website servers.

Multiple handshakes wherein the same source & destination ports were re-used?

>

> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Boonie <newsboonie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>

> > **

> > Were that packets of a cheap embeded device? Sounds like a buggy TCP stack
> > to me.
> >
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> > *From:* nangergong a <nangergong@xxxxxxxxx>

> > *To:* Community support list for Wireshark <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:13 PM
> > *Subject:* Re: [Wireshark-users] what does the TCP stream mean in

> > wireshark
> >
> > Thanks! But previously I saw a tcp stream where there are several TCP
> > connections (I mean mutiple SYN-SYN/ACK-ACK handshakes)
> >
> > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Martin Visser <martinvisser99@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> >
> >> Nangergong,
> >>
> >> A TCP stream is a single connection between two IP addresses, between the
> >> two same ports. If you see the beginning you'll see the SYN-SYN/ACK-ACK
> >> handshake, an will also see the sequence numbers increasing. Some protocols
> >> like HTTP/1.1 can have multiple higher level conversations on the one
> >> connection, so I am not sure that is what you might be seeing?
> >>
> >> Regards, Martin
> >>
> >> MartinVisser99@xxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >>
> >>  On 23 May 2012 20:28, nangergong <nangergong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> HI, all:
> >>>
> >>>     In wireshark there is an option "Follow the TCP stream", I'm
> >>> wondering what does it mean? it seems that in such a TCP stream there are
> >>> multiple TCP connections.
> >>>
> >>
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