What do "TCP Window Full" and "TCP Zero Window" mean?
Issue
- What does TCP Zero Window mean?
- What is a Zero Window in
tcpdump
? - Network packet capture analysis tools report "Zero Window" packets
- TCP Zero Window and TCP Window Full observed in pcap
- Wireshark shows a message like
This is a Zero Window Segment
- What does the flag TCP Window Full, TCP ZeroWindow and TCP ZeroWindowProbe mean in
tcpdump
ortshark
? - Network packet capture analysis tools report Zero Window packets
- How does flow-control work in TCP?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, all versions
- TCP/IP network connection using TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
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