Hi Matt,

Thanks for your input, there's information about reporting bugs[1] and
submitting patches[2] on the wiki.

 [1]: http://wiki.wireshark.org/ReportingBugs
 [2]: http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/SubmittingPatches

On 18 November 2014 16:37, Matt <matta...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Find enclosed a fix for HEAD.
>
> % git diff --stat
>  epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.c | 8 +++++---
>  epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.h | 5 ++---
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> 2014-11-18 15:54 GMT+01:00 Matt <matta...@gmail.com>:
> > Thanks for the suggestion but relative seq nb is a really nice feature
> > I use for plotting and analyzing data. If the TCP ISN can be 0 (I
> > believe it can ?) then my report qualifies as a bug. The fix should be
> > a ~10 lines patch with the expense of a boolean in tcp_analysis. I am
> > willing to send a patch for it.
> >
> > 2014-11-17 18:41 GMT+01:00 ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlb...@gmail.com>:
> >> You can just disable relative sequence numbers in the preferences for
> tcp.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Matt <matta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I use wireshark to examinate some traces generated by a network
> >>> simulator (ns3 www.nsnam.org) which set the ISN to 0 (no randomization
> >>> yet).
> >>> As wireshark assumes base_seq == 0 to be an unitialized value, it
> >>> triggers some error as wireshark tries to set again and again the base
> >>> seq. Here is the output of a single 3WHS (custom printf), in peculiar
> >>> in the 4th line, which is the ACK of the 3WHS, wiresharks sets
> >>> base_seq =seq-1, ie 0-1 and it wraps the seq number (ugly).
> >>>
> >>> Setting base seq to : 0
> >>> Setting base seq to : 0
> >>> Setting rev base seq to : 0
> >>> Setting base seq to : 4294967295
> >>> Setting rev base seq to : 0
> >>> Setting rev base seq to : 0
> >>> Setting base seq to : 0
> >>> Setting base seq to : 0
> >>> Setting rev base seq to : 0
> >>> Setting base seq to : 0
> >>> Setting rev base seq to : 0
> >>> Setting base seq to : 1
> >>>
> >>> I understand it seems a corner case but I don't believe have an ISN
> >>> equal to 0 is forbidden by the RFC ?!
> >>> I was wondering if I could add some boolean such as "base_seq_set" in
> >>> mptcp_info_t to prevent such a behavior.
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>> Matt
>
>
-- 
Graham Bloice
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