Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] fragment_add_..(), pinfo->src/dst, IP vs. TCP Session

From: David Aggeler <david_aggeler@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:49:57 +0200
Hi Bill,

Thanks for you comments. I've looked at quite a few other dissectors and the comments around the reassembly function calls do not increase confidence. Therefore I'm debugging the reassemble module for quite a while now, to understand of what is going on.

For DICOM, I need to do the reassembly at two levels. The first one is at the top, where I have a PDU length to request data. Here I plan to use tcp_dissect_pdus(), once I undestand how this interacts with the heuristic hook. My custom merge at this level works reasonable.

The bigger challange is the second level. For PDVs, there's only a more flag, and then tcp_dissect_pdus() can't help.And this is where I'm using fragment_add_seq_next().

David

Am 11.07.2010 17:10, schrieb Bill Meier:
David Aggeler wrote:
Roughly, DICOM has one TCP session for commands and one for data.

Now fragment_add_seq_next() does not seem to keep different TCP sessions
apart, and solely looks for pinfo->src/dst, which I think are supposed
to represent the IP addresses. But this screws up the reassembly.

Any precondition I missed? Do I need to add a new functions to the
reassemble module or somehow seqeeze srcport/dstport into the ID?


Two comments:

1. fragment_add_seq_next and similar take an "id" argument which is
supposed to be unique for each/any "currently in progress" reassemblies.
(My impression is that the id does not need to be unique for each
separate reassembly).

For example: One dissector uses a "conversation sequence number" as the
id; TCP uses "assembly first frame number".

My sense is that not all dissectors specify the "id" properly. I've had
an item on my ToDo list for a while to dig deeper.

(Looking at various dissectors which use fragment_add_seq_next may be of
help).

2. For TCP it's usually simpler to use tcp_dissect_pdus() for
reassembly. All the details are handled for you.
See doc/README.developer section 2.7.1


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