Request: trace analysis assistance

Jeff Thompson <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:01:43 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.ethereal.user
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Hi, I have been trouble shooting a firewall issue and installed ethereal 
0.99 on WinXP to capture all activity for a particular MAC address. I 
wound up fixing my firewall issue, but I have a question about the trace 
that I captured....

The trace is from a small home LAN without much activity at the time, so 
the capture file is small. I see what I consider to be "many" dup-ack 
and out-of-sequence packets for such a small trace. The trace file 
contains 37 capture records and 12 of them are either dup-ack or 
out-of-sequence. From what I can tell, everything is working OK, but I 
question whether these "errors" are typical or not.

Would anyone be willing to analyze the capture file for me and provide 
some feedback? If so, let me know and I'll either email the capture file 
or provide via a URL...

Thanks,

Jeff