Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Re: VXLAN not decoded when UDP src port is 921

From: John Thacker <johnthacker@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:57:08 -0500
It is not currently. However, given that you are unlikely to see LWRES on your network (it was removed from BIND9 some time ago, and also only ever sent on the loopback interface), you can disable the LWRES dissector:


(There are also command line options to do this.)

As Chuck mentioned, however, if you use other low numbered ports that are actually IANA registered to another protocol, the same thing will happen with other dissectors.

Cheers,
John

On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 11:37 AM kundan kumar <kundank3069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for the clarification.
Could you please confirm whether this change (MR 23056) is expected to be included in the next Wireshark 4.6.3 release?
Thanks,
Kundan

On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 7:34 PM chuck c <bubbasnmp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
lwres: Do not claim (unregistered) port 921

Wireshark sometimes assumes the lower (smaller) port number in a conversation is the server.
The change above should fix that for lwres but there may be other source ports lower than 4789 that will show the same behavior.

On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 12:09 AM kundan kumar <kundank3069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Wireshark Dev Team,

I am sending valid VXLAN packets with UDP destination port 4789. When the UDP source port is an ephemeral (high-numbered) port, Wireshark decodes the packets correctly as VXLAN. However, when the UDP source port is 921 and the destination port is still 4789, the same packets are decoded as LWRES instead of VXLAN. Could you please help explain why this behavior occurs?

Thanks,
Kundan

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