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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 12687] SocketCAN dissector does not support CAN FD

Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:40:44 +0000

Comment # 49 on bug 12687 from
(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #47)
> (In reply to Oliver Hartkopp from comment #45)
> > Created attachment 14854 [details]
> > Screenshot WS2.0.5 with new libpcap
> > 
> > Wireshark 2.0.5 receives additional leading 16 byte (with Link Layer address
> > type, packet type, etc)
> 
> Good!  That's exactly what it's supposed to do; that's the DLT_LINUX_SLL
> header.

Fine :-)

> The important part is the "Protocol" field, which will be 0x000C for
> "classic" CAN and 0x000D for CAN FD.
> 
> > and picks a wrong CAN ID from the content (0x03010000 instead of 0x00000123)
> 
> That's because Wireshark 2.0.5, just like all Wireshark versions before it,
> assume that the CAN ID/flags field is *always* big-endian, even when it's
> been captured with pcap-linux.c rather than pcap-can-linux.c.  You will need
> a recent build from the 2.0, 2.2, or master branch to get it to dissect it
> as little-endian; the fixes to dissect it as little-endian in this case will
> be in the 2.0.6 release and the 2.2 release, which are currently scheduled
> for 2016-09-08 and 2016-08-31 (2.2.0rc2)/2016-09-07 (2.2.0 final release),
> respectively.

Ok. At least this brings a dependency to update both (libpcap and Wireshark) to
this new 'cleaned' version together. I assumed the change of libpcap would work
with older Wiresharks too ...

I'm personally fine with it. The old pcap files can still be processed with the
new Wireshark.


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