Frozen windows

[dhickey]

Could some one please explain the "Window Frozen" error in a sniffer trace file. I have read what the help in Sniffer says, however I am looking for some more thorough information.

 

[fortunat]

I have already posted something very similar for my Fluke sections. Most of the same information applies enjoy.

http://www.thetechfirm.com/fluke_ope/tcp_window_frozen.ppt

'Making things work better; bit by bit.'

 

[jamesgarlick]

TCP window sizing is like flow control, overall you have to look at it with a pinch of salt. when the TCP window is low, small or not resizing fast enough then thta can indicate problems, but if its not zeroing and and the sizing is quite large and/or not running low its not really an issue.

window frozen just inicates that the windows size of that station hasnt changed over the last "3 frames" (threshold dependant). so it can be high or low, if its a large number its generally alright, if its low - possible problems.

thats the basics of it, read the sniffer docs for more info.
rtfm...