I'm using TShark to read in existing *.pcap and *.pcapng files. When I output the TCPStream as an ASCII string using -z follow,tcp,ascii,33 (for stream number 33), I see all the ASCII data, but I also see that between packets, the ASCII stream is split by the the size of that packet in Bytes.
So, an example of the TCP Stream is below. The first half before the number is in one packet, followed by the remaining data found in a different template.
"website.templ
842
tes.output/name"
Assuming that I'm trying to regex on "templates" in this TCPStream, this split causes the regex to miss this occurrence of "templates" because it's split between two different packets.
Is there anyway to export the TCPStream as ASCII without the bytes field?
I attempted to use the -o flag to change the default setting of tcp.track_bytes_in_flight, but this only applies to live captures vs what I'm doing, analyzing static files.
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I am using wireshark to decode gsm packets. Wireshark picks up all communication at that frequency and decodes it.
Overview of the packets obtained.
Now in the system information 5 packet, we have the required parameter.Details of system information 5 packet
I wish to write a code such that if there is only a single value in the last entry of the packet i.e. the neighbour list, an alert inform of a pop up message or something is generated.
These packets have to captured and processed in real time.
I have installed pyshark but cant figure out how to move forward.
Please help
I can only give a partial answer, which is how to detect if there's only a single value or not. My suggestion is to use tshark and then post-process the data using another tool, such as wc. For example:
tshark -i lo -Y "gsm_a.rr.arfcn_list" -T fields -e gsm_a.rr.arfcn_list | wc -w
If the result is 1, then there's only 1 entry in the list.
How you generate an alert from this, I'm not sure.
I try to parse WMV (ASF) files without any SDK, just by decoding raw bytes. Now I have problem with ASF_Data_Object, where I can't find length of data packet. More precise, Single payload data packet.
See image:
Here I have 9 packets, but unable to find size of individual packet. How I can determine border between packets?
I think, my problem at byte 0x411, where field "Length type flags". As you can see, here 0 value, so all flags are zero. Even Packet Length Type.
Yes, 0 value here allowed here. But how to read this type of content?
This is now compressed payload, as replication data is 8, not 1. So, this is single payload without additional fields of size.
Sample of WMV file: https://files.catbox.moe/b51l2j.wmv
You seem to be having fixed size packets with no explicit payload length included, meaning that payload data size is derived from top level data object structure.
Spec quote commented:
That is, the ASF data object carries 9 packets, 3200 bytes each, then internally the packets contain payload 3174 bytes of payload per packet except the last one which has less data and some padding.
I have a pcap file where I have a proprietary header from 13th byte to 110th byte. Is there a way I can strip of this portion from every packet in pcap file and then use wireshark to display the remaining packet ?
If you know for certain that every packet has the same proprietary header in the same location and is the same size, then you can use editcap to remove the unwanted bytes. For example:
editcap -C 12:98 file_with_prop_hdr.pcap file_without_prop_hdr.pcap
Is it possible to re-do numbering in Wireshark. For example i have filtered packets to one side:
So the numbers are (they are not in order because of filtering):
416,419,420,423,424,426,427.
But i would like to number them like this, line by line:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7
The reason is that it would be easier to count all the packets. I know tshark has statistical operation COUNT, but for quick counting this would be a lot better.
You can export the displayed packets into a new file via File -> Export Specified Packets... -> All packets: Displayed. The new capture file will contain sequentially numbered packets starting from 1.
But if you just want to know how many displayed packets there are, you could just look at the Wireshark status line where it will indicate the number of displayed packets.
Statistics -> Capture File Properties will also tell you the number of displayed packets.
A client and server communicate with each other via TCP. The server and client send each other UTF-8 encoded messages.
When encoding UTF-8, the amount of bytes per character is variable. It could take one or more bytes to represent a single character.
Lets say that I am reading a UTF-8 encoded message on the network stream and it is a huge message. In my case it was about 145k bytes. To create a buffer of this size to read from the network stream could lead to an OutMemoryException since the byte array needs that amount of sequential memory.
It would be best then to read from the network stream in a while loop until the entire message is read, reading the pieces in to a smaller buffer (probably 4kb) and then decoding the string and concatenating.
What I am wondering is what happens when the very last byte of the read buffer is actually one of the bytes of a character which is represented by multiple bytes. When I decode the read buffer, that last byte and the beginning bytes of the next read would either be invalid or the wrong character. The quickest way to solve this in my mind would be to encode using a non variable encoding (like UTF-16), and then make your buffer a multiple of the amount of bytes in each character (with UTF-16 being a buffer using the power 2, UTF-32 the power of 4).
But UTF-8 seems to be a common encoding, which would leave me to believe this is a solved problem. Is there another way to solve my concern other than changing the encoding? Perhaps using a linked-list type object to store the bytes would be the way to handle this since it would not use sequential memory.
It is a solved problem. Woot woot!
http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/07/reading-utf-8-characters-from-infinite.html