[isalist] Re: Help reading an ethereal capture

  • From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:52:12 -0600

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> [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve diMascio
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 10:46 AM
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> Subject: [isalist] Help reading an ethereal capture
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> I'm trying to solve a problem I'm having with one of my workstations
> that intermittently takes ages to receive email, even from 
> local users,
> (around 5 minutes anyway). The company owner thinks its a firewall
> client issue, as he never used them in the past but since I installed
> the FWC on every workstation this has happened (only to one of the
> workstations) - that's the whole of his "theory". I don't think its a
> FWC issue but since I haven't been able to give a definite reason, or
> prove its not the FWC he's sticking to his "theory". 
> 
> Its an SBS2k3 network 40 workstations 2 member servers (1 is voip the
> other a TS), obviously exchange and ISA is on the SBS box, 
> although I'm
> planning on moving ISA to its own hardware over the Christmas break.
> 
> I've taken a network capture but am pretty useless at reading 
> them. So I
> compared the capture to a capture taken on a working desktop and the
> only differences I can see between them are the one that doesn't work
> has hundreds of lines like this.
> 
> Source                10.0.0.135
> Destination   0.0.0.0
> Protocol      TCP
> Info          33037 > 0 [RST, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=0 Win=0 Len=0
> 
> There are litterally hundreds of these in a 6 minute capture.
> 
> The frame number goes up by 1 and the source port changes randomly
> (seemingly), I've search google but haven't found anything 
> that tells me
> what this traffic is. Can anyone point me in the right direction, or
> have any good references for reading ethereal captures ?
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