Thanks John, that was really helpful!
This isn't documented and also Google search for "wireshark 4GB limit"
doesn't yield anything helpful.
What makes things worse is if we split capture files into say 2GB chunks
wireshark/tshark cannot correctly decode the individual files also since
the RPC record marker may lie in the middle of a TCP segment and hence the
RPC decoder misses it, so overall decoding >4GB NFS captures is pretty much
impossible.

Thanks,
LS

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 5:16 PM John Thacker <johnthac...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2024, 4:27 AM Linux Smiths <linuxsmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Can someone confirm this or if anyone has used wireshark/tshark to decode
>> RPC streams greater than 4GB your confirmation will be helpful too. Btw
>> I've tried all the protocol preferences and nothing helps.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> LS
>>
>>
> It's a known issue, sorry, that affects anything over TCP that needs
> desegmentation. That's when the TCP sequence number rolls over. See here:
>
> https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/10503
>
> https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19331
>
> Fixing it involves having some kind of extended sequence number and
> changing certain lookups for old segments. Unlike an ordinary network
> stack, Wireshark (and and also tshark, even in one pass mode) can't just
> discard old segments but keeps information around so that random packet
> access is possible.
>
> John Thacker
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