The first thing that comes to mind as a possible source of your problem is the way you are comparing, using a regular expression: 
my @temparr = ($packets[$pnum] =~ /$str/g);

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This is potentially inaccurate because if the ASCII representation of $str includes any regular expression metacharacters (like dots) it may count things that should not match. It is also potentially dangerous because some of those characters may cause your program to crash because they form an invalid regex. You could get around that by using \Q and \E, like this: 
my @temparr = ($packets[$pnum] =~ /\Q$str\E/g);

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The second thing is that the logic of your loops seems a little too convoluted. It could probably be rewritten as something like this (untested): 
foreach my $p (@packets) {
  foreach my $l (2..length($p)) {
    foreach my $pos (0..length($p)-$l) {
      my $str=substr($p, $pos, $l);
      $all{$str}+=$_ for map { scalar(($_ =~ /\Q$str\E/g)) } @packets;
    }
  }
}

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The map builds a list with the count of how many times $str appears in each element from @packets, and the for in that same line adds all those counts to the corresponding element of %all. I think it's essentially the same algorithm you had before, except that it does count the current packet in the matches.

--ZZamboni

In reply to Re: Packet Patterns redux - my script can't count by ZZamboni
in thread Packet Patterns redux - my script can't count by Guildenstern

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