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Does Wireshark takes care of TCP reassembly when I take a dump of network traffic as .pcap file

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When I take a dump of network traffic and save in the .pcap file. I load that pcap file in the wireshark for analyzing and what I find is there is a re-transmission of the tcp packet in the wireshark.

Question: What my question is why the re-transmission is showing up in the wireshark. Didnt the TCP took care of the re-transmission.

asked 18 Feb '16, 15:22

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edited 19 Feb '16, 02:35

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Yes, that's why you see it. Wireshark shows what was recorded, and if there was packet loss TCP sent a retransmission that got recorded, too. Wireshark is not hiding anything.

answered 18 Feb '16, 15:24

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