wireshark ICMP 'seq' in packet info

0	I am trying to understand the capture for PING in wireshark. Can some one tell me what is the meaning of seq=1/256 or seq=3/768 in ICMP packet info? Thanks in advance wireshark ubuntu asked 09 Jun '17, 04:32 lokeshboddeti 6●1●1●3 accept rate: 0% edited 09 Jun '17, 04:33

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It's the sequence number that ICMP echo packets have, and since it can be in little endian or big endian byte order, Wireshark shows both interpretations, separated by the "/".

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answered 09 Jun '17, 04:34

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Thank you jasper, for the clarification.

(09 Jun '17, 04:36) lokeshboddeti

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