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jack-nie

Reputation: 736

why the outputs of tcpdump behaves defferent from three times handshake's definition

I ran the tcp's connection test on mac os using tcpdump and telnet. Here is my command:

telnet localhost 3000
tcpdump -i lo0 port 3000

and here is the result:

16:44:23.751241 IP6 localhost.59405 > localhost.hbci: Flags [S], seq 396289691, win 65535, options [mss 16324,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 896927289 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
16:44:23.751315 IP6 localhost.hbci > localhost.59405: Flags [S.], seq 588037038, ack 396289692, win 65535, options [mss 16324,nop,wscale 5,nop,nop,TS val 896927289 ecr 896927289,sackOK,eol], length 0
16:44:23.751331 IP6 localhost.59405 > localhost.hbci: Flags [.], ack 1, win 12743, options [nop,nop,TS val 896927289 ecr 896927289], length 0
16:44:23.751345 IP6 localhost.hbci > localhost.59405: Flags [.], ack 1, win 12743, options [nop,nop,TS val 896927289 ecr 896927289], length 0
16:44:53.758011 IP6 localhost.hbci > localhost.59405: Flags [F.], seq 1, ack 1, win 12743, options [nop,nop,TS val 896957275 ecr 896927289], length 0
16:44:53.758085 IP6 localhost.59405 > localhost.hbci: Flags [.], ack 2, win 12743, options [nop,nop,TS val 896957275 ecr 896957275], length 0
16:44:53.758101 IP6 localhost.hbci > localhost.59405: Flags [.], ack 1, win 12743, options [nop,nop,TS val 896957275 ecr 896957275], length 0
16:44:53.758188 IP6 localhost.59405 > localhost.hbci: Flags [F.], seq 1, ack 2, win 12743, options [nop,nop,TS val 896957275 ecr 896957275], length 0
16:44:53.758260 IP6 localhost.hbci > localhost.59405: Flags [.], ack 2, win 12743, options [nop,nop,TS val 896957275 ecr 896957275], length 0

the third line's ack value is 1 instead of 588037039, why?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (1)

Prabhu
Prabhu

Reputation: 3541

From

http://linux.die.net/man/8/tcpdump

the ack sequence number is a small integer (1). The first time tcpdump sees a tcp 'conversation', it prints the sequence number from the packet. On subsequent packets of the conversation, the difference between the current packet's sequence number and this initial sequence number is printed. This means that sequence numbers after the first can be interpreted as relative byte positions in the conversation's data stream (with the first data byte each direction being '1'). '-S' will override this feature, causing the original sequence numbers to be output.

Upvotes: 1

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