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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] dissection of NAS messages in RRC

From: Reinhard Speyerer <rspmn@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 23:05:26 +0200
praveen.jha wrote:
 
> Is the dissection of NAS PDUs contained in RRC messages supported in
> release 1.0 of wireshark?

Hi Praveen,

yes, this is supported. Currently the RRC decoder uses DL-DCCH-Message
as its entry point for the RRC protocol. You therefore have to find
a way to also enable decoding for the other RRC message types. In a
Lua-enabled Wireshark the following (used with a small shell script
which adds the corresponding message type and text2pcap -l 148)
works quite well for me:

rrcmon_proto = Proto("rrcmon","rrcmon","rrcmon Protocol")
function rrcmon_proto.dissector(buffer,pinfo,tree)
  local rrc_dl_dcch_dissector = Dissector.get("rrc.dl.dcch")
  local rrc_ul_dcch_dissector = Dissector.get("rrc.ul.dcch")
  local rrc_dl_ccch_dissector = Dissector.get("rrc.dl.ccch")
  local rrc_ul_ccch_dissector = Dissector.get("rrc.ul.ccch")
  local type = buffer(0,1):uint()
  local payload = buffer(1):tvb()
  if (type == 2) then
	  pinfo.cols.protocol = "RRC DL-DCCH"
    rrc_dl_dcch_dissector:call(payload,pinfo,tree)
  elseif (type == 3) then
	  pinfo.cols.protocol = "RRC UL-DCCH"
    rrc_ul_dcch_dissector:call(payload,pinfo,tree)
  elseif (type == 4) then
	  pinfo.cols.protocol = "RRC DL-CCCH"
    rrc_dl_ccch_dissector:call(payload,pinfo,tree)
  elseif (type == 5) then
	  pinfo.cols.protocol = "RRC UL-CCCH"
    rrc_ul_ccch_dissector:call(payload,pinfo,tree)
  end
end
do
  local wtap_encap_table = DissectorTable.get("wtap_encap")
  wtap_encap_table:add(wtap.USER1, rrcmon_proto)
end

Regards,
Reinhard