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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Dissection of file data in Write AndX Request message

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From: dheitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 23:25:27 -0500 (EST)
Ok.  Glad to hear this doesn't fall into the category of "You forgot to turn on option XYZ".

I'll see what I can figure out.

Thanks,

Devin

Quoting Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:47:35PM -0500, dheitmueller wrote:
> > Is there any way to get Ethereal to interpret the "file data" field as
> > DCE/RPC?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Fix the bug that's causing it not to realize that the write is to a pipe
> over which DCE RPC stuff is being done. :-)
> 
> See the "is this part of DCERPC over SMB reassembly?" code in
> "dissect_write_andx_request()"; it appears that the hash table lookup in
> the "si->ct->dcerpc_fid_to_frame" table isn't finding anything.
> 
> I *suspect* the problem is that it's expecting the first part of a DCE
> RPC-over-SMB call to be in an Transaction SMB; however, in this case we
> have:
> 
> 	frame 3 - Transaction SMB request from .80 to .71, containing
> 	    the Bind
> 
> 	frame 4 - Transaction SMB reply from .71 to .80, containing the
> 	    Bind_ack
> 
> 	frame 5 - Write andX request from .80 to .71, presumably
> 	    containing an AUTH3 or something such as that, *NOT* a
> 	    continuation of the Bind or the Bind_ack
> 
> 	Frame 6 - Write andX from .71 to .80, replying to that write
> 
> 	Frame 7 - Transaction SMB request from .80 to .71, containing a
> 	    GetDomainPasswordInfo request
> 
> 	Frame 8 - Transaction SMB reply from .71 to .80, containing a
> 	    GetDomainPasswordInfo reply
> 
> and so on, so the write isn't a continuation of a Transaction operation.
> Perhaps once we identify a FID as referring to a pipe over which DCE RPC
> stuff is being done, we need to treat *everything* written to that pipe
> as pipe stuff.
> 



Devin Heitmueller
Senior Software Engineer
Netilla Networks Inc
732-652-5211