Huge thanks to our Platinum Members Endace and LiveAction,
and our Silver Member Veeam, for supporting the Wireshark Foundation and project.

Ethereal-dev: Re: FW: [Ethereal-dev] Any chance to get something like "decode as" for DCE-RPC

Note: This archive is from the project's previous web site, ethereal.com. This list is no longer active.

From: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 07:50:25 +1000
Thinking about it, this would work really well,  as long as one makes sure that
IF a real bind/bind-ack is dissected and this will match the same 
socket-pair/smb-fid/context_id as an already existing dcerpc
conversation, then the old one is first removed before the new one is
inserted.


On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 07:47:41 +1000, ronnie sahlberg
<ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A simple workable solution might be to just stop having ethereal
> clear/flush this table when the redissection is done.
> 
> I.e. removing the "flush table" thing in the xxx_init() routine.
> 
> It will increase the likelyhood of incorrect dissection for the case
> where you load a new capture and a different DCERPC interface is
> signalled ontop of the exact same
> socket-pair (and SMB FID for ncacn_pipe transport).
> 
> I dont think it is very likely for this to happen though.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 22:13:40 +0200, Ulf Lamping  wrote:
> > Eric Wedel wrote:
> >
> > >Ulf Lamping schriebt:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>>Looking forward to the UI stuff whenever you get a chance.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>Yes, that's the point: "whenever you get a chance". Sorry for the delay,
> > >>I just have a lot of things on my Ethereal (and my private) to do list.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >Not that I wish you to slow down, but I've been pondering / waiting for
> > >this for well over a year now.  A few extra weeks (or whatever) aren't
> > >that much more.  :-)
> > >
> > >
> > Hmmm, I understand ...
> >
> > >I'm just grateful that it is likely to get done at some point.
> > >
> > >
> > Well, I've just checked in some more changes for the dcerpc "Decode As"
> > thing.
> >
> > I've almost done the straight GUI related things (no real cleanup code),
> > but now I've running into a more serious problem.
> >
> > I got the "Decode As" dialog running for the first time (showing up the
> > DCE-RPC page with the interface names), with a lot of things need to
> > think about (still commented out, see gtk/decode_as_dlg.c line 1720 to
> > 1726).
> >
> > But when I implemented the interface to the DCE-RPC things, I'm running
> > into deep trouble.
> >
> > You've added a function to add a new bind mapping to the bind hashtable,
> > which looked ok at first sight.
> >
> > But the problems is buried into timing. When calling "Decode As",
> > everything regarding dissection is already done. So it seemed to be the
> > right thing to inject the binding into the hashtable and redissect
> > everything.
> >
> > But trying to redissect the packets, this is leading to remove both the
> > complete binding and conversation tables (which must be done), so even
> > keeping the conv pointer won't help much here, as the complete
> > conversations are rebuild :-(
> >
> > The right thing might be to inject the "Decode As" bindings (from
> > ctx_id, smb_fid, srcport, destport, srcip, ...) before continuing
> > dissecting the first packet (again).
> >
> > But there might be a better way...
> >
> > Regards, ULFL
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Ethereal-dev mailing list
> > Ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev
> >
>