Finding Retransmits in Ethereal

posted by  varson (7)  12 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

With the full version of Netmon, it's relatively easy to find retransmitted packets with the expert; however, in Ethereal, it's not quite as clear...

Ethereal supports analysis of TCP sequence numbers to find retransmits & do other neat things; however, the default is to turn this off (because, I would guess, it will increase load times on captures).  To turn it on, go to Preferences, then find the TCP protocol & put a checkbox in the “Analyze TCP s