March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
17h 32m
English
In UDP, the header structure is very simple—source and destination ports, packet length, and checksum. Therefore, the only significant information here is the port numbers.
TCP, on the other hand, is more complex, and uses connectivity and reliability mechanisms that can be monitored by Wireshark. Using tcp.flags, tcp.analysis, and other smart filters will help you with resolving performance problems (retransmissions, duplicate ACKs, zero-windows, and so on), or protocol operations issues such as resets, half-opens, and so on.
Common display filters in this category are as follows:
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