Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Fragmentation
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From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:46:08 -0700
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:26:32PM +0530, Subhasree R wrote:

> I am implementing one new protocol over TCP layer. I am implementing 
> fragment_add_check() for fragmentation.

> In this protocol, there was no sequence id, i.e 4th parameter.

The sequence number is used so that Wireshark knows what order to place 
the packets in because they may not arrive across the wire in order.  Is 
there another way of telling the order of the packets?