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The delta time column has always been one of the first things to add when configuring Wireshark. It shows the time between displayed packets, or captured packets, depending on how you set it up. It makes finding delays in conversations much easier to do - that is unless you are dealing with a trace …

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What is the difference between a regular retransmission and a spurious one? What can I do about them if I find them in a trace file? Spurious retransmissions are not uncommon. They find their way into our trace files somewhat often. In this video, we explain the differences in retransmission …

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In most cases, clients are talking to servers to support services requested by users. We typically should not see clients communicating directly with other clients on our subnets, unless there is some file sharing or other type of expected activity. In this video, we will look at how to filter …

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Ever wonder where in the world IP conversations are coming from? In this video, we show how to configure and use the GeoIP feature of Wireshark. This allows us to get GPS coordinates for IP addresses in the trace files. https://youtu.be/VZUX0KwKRHY Here is the link to the MaxMind …

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This video shows a common display filter that can be used in Wireshark to filter for slow web transactions to a server. Using this filter, you can quickly isolate slow application responses, which helps to get the blame off the network and into the right place. Enjoy! …

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This case study shows how we dug into a problem where a client had intermittent connectivity to the internet. Some applications worked while others did not. It affected all users in a small office. The capture file showed several TCP resets. What did they tell us? What were the next steps? What …

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