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tcppaddingwireshark
Ke.
Ke.

Reputation: 2586

Wireshark what do the dots mean in message?

In wireshark I get several dots before and after a tcp message like so:

.................................

Each 4 dots is colored differently (orange and blue)

Im wondering what these mean? I am padding each 4 bytes with zeros. x00 , so im wondering is the orange part the padding?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2174

Answers (1)

Jerry_Y
Jerry_Y

Reputation: 1734

Wireshark trying to treate the hex as ASCII and print it.

But in ASCII only 0x20 ~ 0x7E is printable, other hex would be displayed as ...

Have no idea about the color thing.

Upvotes: 4

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