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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] writing non-Ethernet pcapng files

From: Michael Tüxen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 09:32:55 +0200
Hi Aaron,

thanks for the fix. I have committed it (with whitespace changes).

Best regards
Michael

On May 22, 2009, at 12:48 AM, Aaron Turner wrote:

Looks like there was a bug where WTAP codes weren't being properly
converted to DLT types and since ethernet == ethernet, that worked,
but most everything else didn't.

I've attached a patch which I've tested with HDLC, 802.11, 802.11 w/
radio headers and Juniper Ethernet.  The first three work just fine,
but Wireshark isn't properly decoding the Juniper Ethernet pcapng file
even though it appears correctly formatted:

0000000: 0a0d 0d0a 1c00 0000 4d3c 2b1a 0100 0000  ........M<+.....
0000010: ffff ffff ffff ffff 1c00 0000 0100 0000  ................
0000020: 1400 0000 b200 0000 dc05 0000 1400 0000  ................
0000030: 0600 0000 8400 0000 0100 0000 2f69 0400  ............/i..
0000040: d61a b423 6400 0000 6400 0000 4d47 4380  ...#d...d...MGC.

As you can see at offset 0x24-25, the encoded DLT is 178  which is
Juniper Ethernet, but capinfos/Wireshark is returning Unknown.  I
haven't bothered to track down why wireshark (latest 1.1.x from svn)
handles this for pcap but not pcapng.

Side note: I thought wireshark coding standard was to uses spaces and
not tabs, but pcapng.c seemed to be tabbed so I maintained that.  If
someone wants me to do differently, let me know.


-- Aaron Turner
http://synfin.net/
http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary
Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
   -- Benjamin Franklin



On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Aaron Turner <synfinatic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Michael Tüxen
<Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Aaron,

I see what you mean. I'm using pcapio.[ch] in dumpcap,
so I'm using WTAP_ENCAP_PER_PACKET...

Can you file a bug report at https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/
such that it does not get forgotten. Please describe
what you want to get working (possibly providing the
input file). Then it does not get lost.

I will look at it after finishing the capturing support,
if no one else takes the issue earlier.

Well looks like it was more work then I thought... converting from
pcap to pcapng looses the ecapsulation type for some reason (at least
with my HDLC test).  I'm going to see if I can dig around and figure
out what's going on.

--
Aaron Turner
http://synfin.net/
http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary
Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
   -- Benjamin Franklin

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