Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] DeviceNet dissector

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Unfortunately the "CIP" in DeviceNet is drastically different than the CIP that runs over Ethernet/IP.  I think you'd be much better off just writing a pure DeviceNet dissector because I think you'd spend just as much time trying to manipulate packets (if its even possible) to make them look like "Ethernet/IP CIP" packets as you would writing a new dissector. 

 

For starters:

1. DeviceNet doesn't use the same path segmentation (in a single packet) as Ethernet/IP because of packet size contraints

2. The connection architecture is different enough that you couldn't really take advantage of the "CIP connection" conversations.

3. DeviceNet needs a lot more "conversation" data, again because of the packet size constaints.

 

Also if I'm analyzing DeviceNet CAN traffic, I want my dissection to look like a CAN frame and once you start manipulating it, it would be hard to distinguish.  For example, the segment type is determined by a UCMMOpen message/packet and an explicit message then just has class/instance/attribute in that segment size in a separate message.  Would you "add" the segment type to the explicit message packet?  If you did, it would need to show up in Wireshark when that byte doesn't exist in the packet.

 

You probably want to use some of the "value strings" from the CIP dissector and I believe most of the common ones (shared by all of the CIP protocols) are already available in packet-cip.h.  If there are a few more than you need to share, just expose them in packet-cip.h

-----Original Message-----
From: Hans-Jörgen Gunnarss
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To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, Aug 21, 2012 5:28 am
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] DeviceNet dissector

I have now built a program that takes the frames and sends them into Wireshark 
through a pipe. Works really good, thanks for the tip.

In Wireshark the frames go into the SocketCAN dissector which I have modified 
and added DeviceNet to. Next step is to build the DeviceNet Dissector.

I want to tie the DeviceNet dissector to the existing CIP dissector, but in 
order to use the CIP Dissector I have to modify the packet and insert body type 
information and perhaps modify it so that it fits the CIP-protocol. Is it 
possible to do that? And if possible, is there some information somewhere about 
how to do it? My Google Ninja skill haven't been able to find any information. 

Regards 
Hans-Jörgen

-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf Of Kurt Knochner
Sent: den 10 augusti 2012 15:40
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] DeviceNet dissector


Hans-Jörgen Gunnarsson wrote:

> We are trying to develop a dissector for DeviceNet. We want it to ...
> and partly decodes them. The problem is that it might be better to 
> pick the DeviceNet-messages directly from the dongle into Wireshark.
> Perhaps through SocketCAN or something like that. ...
> We haven't found a good way to do this though. Do you have any ideas 
> or thoughts?

Please take a look at my answer in the following question at ask.wireshark.org.

http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/12102/logging-can-bus-data-to-ws-in-windows

I mentioned a project Wsbridge (link in the answer). They faced a similar 
problem and solved it by using pipes. The code for Wsbridge is available and it 
should give you some ideas.

Regards
Kurt

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