Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GTP session plugin

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:56:19 -0400
On 10/22/15 03:43, POZUELO Gloria (BCS/PSD) wrote:
Hi all,

I get in touch with you, since I would like to develop a new plugin for
GTP protocol (V1 and V2 versions). This functionality would consists of
looking for all messages that belongs to the same session.  For
instance: you select from 1 to N Create Session Request or Create PDP
Context and all the information about those sessions will be shown, this
way you could export those specific packets.

It sounds like what you're describing is similar to what another of other dissectors (like TCP, SCTP, and I think SCCP). You would basically need to modify the GTP dissector to build up state which includes information about each GTP session (similar to the way the TCP dissector builds up state information about each TCP connection).

I can't really offer any specific advice other than to look at how other dissectors do it. If you want a starting point, look at the "tcp.stream" field (which uniquely identifies a TCP connection that the TCP dissector has found). Also you need to be aware that dissectors usually build up this state only on the first pass through the packets (when pinfo->fd->flags.visited is FALSE).