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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] SCTP De-chunking support

From: Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:21:39 +0100
On Jan 10, 2013, at 5:07 PM, vineeth vijay wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Has the de-chunking of SCTP within wireshark been attempted yet? I noticed some old conversations in mailing list in this regard, but nothing concrete has turned up yet. While trying to do this in tshark, I have tried calling tshark's process_packet() function from packet-sctp.c file in dissectors but got nowhere due to linking issues. I feel the way to do this would be:
> 
> 1) Create a global copy of entire frame at initial stage (Is there any other way to access the entire frame structure from packet-sctp where ultimately the decision whether to do de-chunking or not would be made. )
> 2) In case there are several chunks in the packet, allow the completion of processing till first chunk and create  composite tvbs consisting of eth+ip+sctp_header+remaining_individual_chunks.
> 3) Correct IP checksums and length in the composite Tvb.
> 4) Process these tvb's individuallly. (Is this possible with the rule to have a single capture file at a time?? Can a capture file structure be modified on the fly?)
> 
> Is the above process doable without breaking wireshark/tshark processing structure? Can anybody suggest a better solution...
Hi,

what problem are you trying to solve? Wireshark supports dissecting the upper layer paylaod
for bundled DATA chunks for ages...

Best regards
Michael
> 
> Vineeth
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