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 I don't think I can help, but I'm interested in your problem 
Tom. 
I've seen in the forum in the past where it is requested that you 
send a subset of your packet capture to the forum.  Just send the 
packets that are in question.  Much more info can be gotten from that than 
your tables at the end of your email. From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Reynolds, Tom Sent: 2007-12-05 11:47 To: wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Wireshark-users] FTP - TCP Previous segment lost, TCP Dup ACK,TCP Retransmission Hi 
all, I am having a tough 
time figuring this out, so I decided to pitch it to this 
group. I am in the process of 
moving my servers from one hosting company in Philadelphia to another company 
located in Valley Forge.  Both companies have a 10/100 Mbit/s pipe to the 
internet.  Our home office is in King of Prussia. I get great bandwidth 
to and from the old company in Philadelphia, but poor speeds to the company in 
Valley Forge.  Downloads from Valley Forge seem ok sometimes.  
 After swapping and 
reconfiguring everything at least 12 times (new Cisco 2960G switches, new ASA 
5510 and 5520 firewalls), I have finally put a sniffer on the line and can’t 
understand what I see. To simplify testing, I 
have removed the VPN, and now test with FTP servers at each 
location. 
 Downloads and uploads 
(from a DSL line) to Philadelphia.  Everything is great.  We get a 
solid 3 Mb/s download and a solid 750k upload.   
 Downloads from Valley 
Forge to the DSL line are very poor, with almost double the time to download the 
same 10 MB file.  There are frequent drops from the 3Mb/s range to about 
500k.   I have actually seen worse than this. After looking at the 
sniffer logs, here is what I see:   (middle 10 packets 8950-8959, 
right about the time of the bandwidth drops).   Note that I am getting 
a ton of:   TCP Previous segment 
lost TCP Dup 
ACK TCP 
Retransmission Are these TCP drops 
normal for traffic over the internet? How many drops are 
acceptable? How do I find out 
where or why packets are dropping?    Are there any other 
free tools I can use to better track my packets through the 
internet? Any help would be 
appreciated. Thanks in 
advance. No.     
Time        
Source                
Destination           Protocol 
Info    8950 
80.406846   66.104.107.217        
71.242.248.10         FTP-DATA [TCP 
Previous segment lost] FTP Data: 1260 bytes Frame 8950 (1314 bytes 
on wire, 1314 bytes captured) Ethernet II, Src: 
Cisco_e6:46:18 (00:14:f2:e6:46:18), Dst: Dell_37:c4:a6 
(00:15:c5:37:c4:a6) Internet Protocol, 
Src: 66.104.107.217 (66.104.107.217), Dst: 71.242.248.10 
(71.242.248.10) Transmission Control 
Protocol, Src Port: ftp-data (20), Dst Port: 5005 (5005), Seq: 6203105, Ack: 1, 
Len: 1260 FTP 
Data No.     
Time        Source     
           Destination           
Protocol Info    8951 
80.406910   
71.242.248.10         
66.104.107.217        
TCP      5005 > ftp-data [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=6199325 
Win=65535 Len=0 SLE=6203105 SRE=6204365 SLE=6200585 
SRE=6201845 Frame 8951 (74 bytes 
on wire, 74 bytes captured) Ethernet II, Src: 
Dell_37:c4:a6 (00:15:c5:37:c4:a6), Dst: Cisco_e6:46:18 
(00:14:f2:e6:46:18) Internet Protocol, 
Src: 71.242.248.10 (71.242.248.10), Dst: 66.104.107.217 
(66.104.107.217) Transmission Control 
Protocol, Src Port: 5005 (5005), Dst Port: ftp-data (20), Seq: 1, Ack: 6199325, 
Len: 0 No.     
Time        
Source                
Destination           Protocol 
Info    8952 
80.410308   66.104.107.217        
71.242.248.10         FTP-DATA [TCP 
Retransmission] FTP Data: 1260 bytes Frame 8952 (1314 bytes 
on wire, 1314 bytes captured) Ethernet II, Src: 
Cisco_e6:46:18 (00:14:f2:e6:46:18), Dst: Dell_37:c4:a6 
(00:15:c5:37:c4:a6) Internet Protocol, 
Src: 66.104.107.217 (66.104.107.217), Dst: 71.242.248.10 
(71.242.248.10) Transmission Control 
Protocol, Src Port: ftp-data (20), Dst Port: 5005 (5005), Seq: 6199325, Ack: 1, 
Len: 1260 FTP 
Data No.     
Time        
Source                
Destination           Protocol 
Info    8953 
80.410394   
71.242.248.10         
66.104.107.217        
TCP      5005 > ftp-data [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=6201845 
Win=65535 Len=0 SLE=6203105 SRE=6204365 Frame 8953 (66 bytes 
on wire, 66 bytes captured) Ethernet II, Src: 
Dell_37:c4:a6 (00:15:c5:37:c4:a6), Dst: Cisco_e6:46:18 
(00:14:f2:e6:46:18) Internet Protocol, 
Src: 71.242.248.10 (71.242.248.10), Dst: 66.104.107.217 
(66.104.107.217) Transmission Control 
Protocol, Src Port: 5005 (5005), Dst Port: ftp-data (20), Seq: 1, Ack: 6201845, 
Len: 0 No.     
Time        
Source                
Destination           Protocol 
Info    8954 
80.415232   66.104.107.217        
71.242.248.10         FTP-DATA [TCP 
Retransmission] FTP Data: 1260 bytes Frame 8954 (1314 bytes 
on wire, 1314 bytes captured) Ethernet II, Src: 
Cisco_e6:46:18 (00:14:f2:e6:46:18), Dst: Dell_37:c4:a6 
(00:15:c5:37:c4:a6) Internet Protocol, 
Src: 66.104.107.217 (66.104.107.217), Dst: 71.242.248.10 
(71.242.248.10) Transmission Control 
Protocol, Src Port: ftp-data (20), Dst Port: 5005 (5005), Seq: 6201845, Ack: 1, 
Len: 1260 FTP 
Data No.     
Time        
Source                
Destination           Protocol 
Info    8955 
80.415284   
71.242.248.10         
66.104.107.217        
TCP      5005 > ftp-data [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=6204365 
Win=65535 Len=0 Frame 8955 (54 bytes 
on wire, 54 bytes captured) Ethernet II, Src: 
Dell_37:c4:a6 (00:15:c5:37:c4:a6), Dst: Cisco_e6:46:18 
(00:14:f2:e6:46:18) Internet Protocol, 
Src: 71.242.248.10 (71.242.248.10), Dst: 66.104.107.217 
(66.104.107.217) Transmission Control 
Protocol, Src Port: 5005 (5005), Dst Port: ftp-data (20), Seq: 1, Ack: 6204365, 
Len: 0 No.     
Time        
Source                
Destination           Protocol 
Info    8956 
80.418901   66.104.107.217        
71.242.248.10         FTP-DATA [TCP 
Previous segment lost] FTP Data: 1260 bytes Frame 8956 (1314 bytes 
on wire, 1314 bytes captured) Ethernet II, Src: 
Cisco_e6:46:18 (00:14:f2:e6:46:18), Dst: Dell_37:c4:a6 
(00:15:c5:37:c4:a6) Internet Protocol, 
Src: 66.104.107.217 (66.104.107.217), Dst: 71.242.248.10 
(71.242.248.10) Transmission Control 
Protocol, Src Port: ftp-data (20), Dst Port: 5005 (5005), Seq: 6205625, Ack: 1, 
Len: 1260 FTP 
Data No.     
Time        
Source                
Destination           Protocol 
Info    8957 
80.418940   
71.242.248.10         
66.104.107.217        
TCP      [TCP Dup ACK 8955#1] 5005 > ftp-data [ACK] 
Seq=1 Ack=6204365 Win=65535 Len=0 SLE=6205625 SRE=6206885 Frame 8957 (66 bytes 
on wire, 66 bytes captured) Ethernet II, Src: 
Dell_37:c4:a6 (00:15:c5:37:c4:a6), Dst: Cisco_e6:46:18 
(00:14:f2:e6:46:18) Internet Protocol, 
Src: 71.242.248.10 (71.242.248.10), Dst: 66.104.107.217 
(66.104.107.217) Transmission Control 
Protocol, Src Port: 5005 (5005), Dst Port: ftp-data (20), Seq: 1, Ack: 6204365, 
Len: 0 No.     
Time        
Source                
Destination           Protocol 
Info    8958 
80.422630   66.104.107.217        
71.242.248.10         FTP-DATA [TCP 
Retransmission] FTP Data: 1260 bytes Frame 8958 (1314 bytes 
on wire, 1314 bytes captured) Ethernet II, Src: 
Cisco_e6:46:18 (00:14:f2:e6:46:18), Dst: Dell_37:c4:a6 
(00:15:c5:37:c4:a6) Internet Protocol, 
Src: 66.104.107.217 (66.104.107.217), Dst: 71.242.248.10 
(71.242.248.10) Transmission Control 
Protocol, Src Port: ftp-data (20), Dst Port: 5005 (5005), Seq: 6204365, Ack: 1, 
Len: 1260 FTP 
Data No.     
Time        
Source                
Destination           Protocol 
Info    8959 
80.422697   
71.242.248.10         
66.104.107.217        
TCP      5005 > ftp-data [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=6206885 
Win=65535 Len=0 Frame 8959 (54 bytes 
on wire, 54 bytes captured) Ethernet II, Src: 
Dell_37:c4:a6 (00:15:c5:37:c4:a6), Dst: Cisco_e6:46:18 
(00:14:f2:e6:46:18) Internet Protocol, 
Src: 71.242.248.10 (71.242.248.10), Dst: 66.104.107.217 
(66.104.107.217) Transmission Control 
Protocol, Src Port: 5005 (5005), Dst Port: ftp-data (20), Seq: 1, Ack: 6206885, 
Len: 0 
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