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order of packets in case of high data rate

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I am monitoring Eth3 of 2 machines. 1st machine is sending the RLP(Radio Link Protocol) messages. 2nd machine receives the RLP Messages. Data rate would ne 30-40 MBps

Problem: Order of the packet on Machine 2 is not same as Machine 1. Is there any guarantee that wireshark will display the packets in the same order as the order of the packets on the wire?

Thanks, Gp

asked 24 Mar '11, 10:05

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edited 21 Sep '12, 08:37

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are they in the same network (just a switch between them) or are there routers inbetween. If there are routers, the packets may be reordered.

(21 Sep '12, 09:29) Kurt Knochner ♦

How are you capturing the traffic? If you're using a SPAN session, that may be skewing the results. If you can, try capturing using the same method (ie TX only SPAN,the RX only spans to rule out any issues with packets being re-ordered inside the switch)

(21 Sep '12, 13:50) hansangb