wireshark and tcpdump -r: strange tcp window sizes
I'm capturing http traffic with tcpdump and am interested in TCP slow start and how window sizes increase: $ sudo tcpdump -i eth1 -w wget++.tcpdump tcp and port 80 When I view the dump file with Wireshark the progression of window sizes looks normal, i.e. 5840, 5888, 5888, 8576, 11264, etc... But when I view the dump file via $ tcpdump -r wget++.tcpdump -tnN | less I get what seem to be nonsensical windows sizes ( IP addresses omitted for brevity ): : S 1069713761:1069713761(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 24220583 0,nop,wscale 7> : S 1198053215:1198053215(0) ack 1069713762 win 5672