Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6114] In detail pane, Timestamp is incorrectly decoded in

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:58:45 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6114

Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Platform|x86                         |All
            Summary|For ICMP Time Response, In  |In detail pane, Timestamp
                   |detail pane, Timestamp is   |is incorrectly decoded in
                   |incorrectly decoded for MS  |ICMP Timestamp Response
                   |Windows.                    |packets from MS Windows
         OS/Version|Windows XP                  |All

--- Comment #1 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2011-07-12 21:58:44 PDT ---
Yeah, it appears that Windows might send out some time stamps in host byte
order (little-endian on all the machines on which mainstream Windows runs)
rather than in network byte order (big-endian):

    http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Network-Admin/ICMPInfo.shtml

"ICMPInfo uses ICMP type 13 (timestamp RFC792) and 17 (netmask RFC950) for
retrieving the current time and the netmask of a remote host.

The time routine manages both the 2 "stack" methods used by the remote hosts
(for example Win shows time in a different byte order than Linux)."

   
http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1124&context=cis_reports&sei-redir=1#search=%22icmp%20timestamp%20windows%20byte%20order%22

"A specific problem observed, that is not shown in the results of Table 2, is a
bug in the ICMP Timestamp implementation that provides the Timestamp reply in
the wrong byte order, which was traced to end-points running Microsoft
operating systems."

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