I am using tshark to output the human-readable text from TCP packets. I do this with the data.text field. For example, my tshark.exe switches include:
-o data.show_as_text:TRUE -T fields -e data.text
This works just fine for most packets. The trouble comes when a packet is retransmitted by the sender. In these cases, data.text is always blank.
When analyzing the traffic in Wireshark, I see that retransmitted TCP frames (these are labeled as [TCP Retransmission] and include the note "This frame is a (suspected) retransmission") do not include the Data field at all - Wireshark does not reconstruct it (even though I have the parse data as text option enabled). Instead, these frames have a "Retransmitted TCP segment data" field (tcp.segment_data) which does not include any parsed text.
Is this a bug with tshark/wireshark? Why is the Data field not being constructed for these packets? Is there some other way for me to get the text from retransmitted TCP packets, or is my only option to manually decode the hex of tcp.segment_data for retransmitted packets?
The TCP connection I am monitoring frequently has retransmitted packets, so I am missing critical data at the moment.
Do you have TCP reassembly enabled? Maybe try to disable it with -o tcp.desegment_tcp_streams:FALSE? If that doesn't help, maybe there's a bug with the version of Wireshark you're using. You could try upgrading to the latest stable version (2.6.1 as of this writing) and try again. You could even try a recent automated installer, if one is available for your OS or you could try building Wireshark from sources. If the problem still persists, you could file a Wireshark bug report along with a sample capture file to illustrate the problem.
You may also want to add a Wireshark display filter to your command-line to limit the output to only those packets that contain data.text, e.g. -Y data.text.
Refer to the tshark man page for more information about the -Y and other options.
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I am trying to capture the live packets from available interface. My code is developed in go lang and for capturing purpose, I am using google's go packet library.
I am able to capture packets but I am unable to get precise timestamp.
If I run the below command and see the timestamp in wireshark, I am getting accurate difference between timestamps.
tcpdump -i device0 -j adapter_unsynced -w captureOnMachine.pcap
But, If I generate tcp dump using go packet library there is no precision.
I looked over the internet about adapter_unsynced command and saw
PCAP_TSTAMP_ADAPTER_UNSYNCED - adapter_unsynced
Time stamp provided by the network adapter on which the cap-
ture is being done. This is a high-precision time stamp; it
is not synchronized with the host operating system's clock.
Can we get same setting in docker or go packet library.
I need to make tcpdump using wireshark or tcpdump
For some tcp streams in log I need full packet info.
But for tcp streams in log I need to remove all info except full uri info.
For this I'am going to use regular expressions.
If URI, http.request or http.response match some of regular expressions
then I need to store full tcp stream info.
If doesn't match --- then I need to remove all tcp stream info except full uri info.
I need it to reduce log size.
What tool do you advise for this ?
Or may be some php/python library will be helpful to create script that will filter log ?
tcpick and tcpxtract are two tools available to filter and extract information from a tcpdump file. They are both open-source and available at sourceforge.net. You will have to write your own routine for how and what information you would like to extract. tcpick is fairly flexible regarding what parts of a packet you can view/extract.
I use TraceWrangler in my projects, which despite being beta, works very well. It allows, in addition to editing the L2/L3 headers, to sanitize the packets.
I am working with a "real time" data analysis toolchain which is separated into two parts. The first part fetches the data to be analyzed, packs it into a UDP packet and sends it to another host. The second part, running on the aforementioned host, receives the UDP packets and performs analysis on the received packets. By "real time" I mean that the output of the analysis toolchain should appear live to a human user, thus latencies of up to 100 ms are acceptable.
I am looking into making a new data source available to the receiving part. The data that I am looking for are being transferred on an Ethercat bus, which I can sniff. Wireshark/tshark have a dissector for Ethercat packets. With that said, it's really simple to get at the data in a script running within Wireshark/tshark. Since I have little control over the second part of the analysis, I cannot readily modify the second part to sniff Ethercat frames via pcap or somesuch.
Is it possible to send UDP packets from a script running in Wireshark/tshark?
Wireshark's Lua doesn't have a way to do that available out-of-the-box, but it's stock Lua so you can write a wireshark Lua script which itself can import (i.e., use require) any other Lua script or compiled Lua dll/so library. So, for example, you could use the LuaSocket library to send packets from within your wireshark Lua script.
Note that there is no event loop available to Wireshark Lua scripts, so receiving packets via LuaSocket isn't going to work, afaik. But since you're talking about sending over UDP, and sending only when the Wireshark Lua script will get invoked (i.e., because you'd do the send() call inside a tap or dissector), I think it should work. If it does/doesn't please post back, because this question comes up now and then and it would be good to know.
I would like to capture the "incoming" interface and "outgoing" interface for packets transiting through a software switch (assume it has 10 ports and I want to know which of those 10 interfaces a particular packet came from). I can't seem to find any way to get "tcpdump -i any" to output the arriving or outgoing interfaces. It only gives fields of the packet. Is there any other derivative of tcpdump (like tshark perhaps?) which will enable extracting the port information? The intention is tracing a packet flow path through a network. Regards.
tcpdump 4.10 should include this feature (hasn't been released as of today).
Meanwhile you can use Sebastian Haas's script.
I want to parse packets captured by wireshark offline using libpcap. I am capturing packets from a wireless network in monitor mode. I have read that "libpcap" can be used to capture and parse packets captured in the ethernet. Can it be used for wireless networks too? If yes, can anyone suggest me some tutorial? and if No, which library is suitable for it and how to use it?
libpcap, and its Windows port, WinPcap can be used to capture network traffic (in fact, they're what Wireshark uses to capture network traffic), as well as to read a capture file in pcap format (the default format for Wireshark's existing releases) and, in libpcap 1.1 and later, to read some capture files in pcap-ng format (the default format for the current development version of Wireshark; it should write out files that libpcap 1.1 and later can read).
They can handle a number of network types, including Ethernet and Wi-Fi.
They do not, however, support parsing any packet types; that's the job of the code that uses them, whether it's tcpdump/WinDump, Wireshark, or some other application. There's a library called WiFiPcap that is:
A C++ wrapper around libpcap that parses 802.11 frames, and the most common layer 3 (IPv4, IPv6, ARP) and layer 4 protocols (TCP, UDP, ICMP) contained within them. Also works without link-layer headers. Works in Linux and Windows.
(copied from its web page, but edited to fix the protocol layer numbers to match the OSI model).
I have not looked at it, but it might do what you want.
There might also be other libraries that could be used to parse the packets.