gzip. The zLib library is used for this purpose. If zLib is not available
(or it's use is disabled by the --disable-zlib option to configure), you
can still compile Ethereal but it will be unable to read compressed capture
files.
IMPORTANT:
Now all file accesses to capture files should be done through special macros.
Specifically, for any use of the following functions on capture files, replace them.
The arguments for the right-side functions are exactly the same as for the
original stdio functions.
fopen file_open
fdopen filed_open
fread file_read
fwrite file_write
fseek file_seek
fclose file_close
ferror file_error
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family has a set of debug commands that allow you to log the traffic on a
WAN or dialup connection as text, e.g.
RECV-iguana:241:(task: B04E12C0, time: 1975358.50) 15 octets @ 8003D634
[0000]: FF 03 00 3D C0 06 C9 96 2D 04 C1 72 00 05 B8
Created wtap_seek_read() which parses the textual data for and Ascend
trace, and does a normal fseek() and fread() for any other file type.
The fseek()/fread() pairs in file.c were replaced with the new function.
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read, and maintain it ourselves as we read through the file, rather than
calling "ftell()" for every packet we read - "ftell()" may involve an
"lseek()" call, which could add a noticeable CPU overhead when reading a
large file.
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"FDDI with the MAC addresses bit-swapped"; whether the MAC addresses are
bit-swapped is a property of the machine on which the capture was taken,
not of the machine on which the capture is being read - right now, none
of the capture file formats we read indicate whether FDDI MAC addresses
are bit-swapped, but this does let us treat non-"libpcap" captures as
being bit-swapped or not bit-swapped independent of the machine on which
they're being read (and of the machine on which they were captured, but
I have the impression they're bit-swapped on most platforms), and allows
us to, if, as, and when we implement packet capture in Wiretap, mark
packets in a capture file written in Wiretap-native format based on the
machine on which they are captured (assuming the rule "Ultrix, Alpha,
and BSD/OS are the only platforms that don't bit-swap", or some other
compile-time rule, gets the right answer, or that some platform has
drivers that can tell us whether the addresses are bit-swapped).
(NOTE: if, for any of the capture file formats used only on one
platform, FDDI MAC addresses aren't bit-swapped, the code to read that
capture file format should be fixed to flag them as not bit-swapped.)
Use the encapsulation type to decide whether to bit-swap addresses in
"dissect_fddi()".
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Have the code that opens "libpcap" files for writing check to make sure
that the Wiretap encapsulation can be written to a "libpcap" file, and
return -1 and supply a new WTAP_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ENCAP error code if it
can't.
Handle that new error code in "wtap_strerror()".
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code supplied by a Wiretap routine (whether a positive UNIX "errno" code
or a negative Wiretap error code), and returns an error message
corresponding to it.
Use that to construct the message Ethereal put up in a message box for
those errors for which we don't have Ethereal put up a message of its
choice.
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Get rid of WTAP_ENCAP_NONE; replace it with WTAP_ENCAP_UNKNOWN, which
means "I can't handle that file, it's using an encapsulation I don't
support".
Check for encapsulations we don't support, and return an error (as is
already done in "libpcap.c").
Check for too-large packet sizes, and return an error (as is already
done in "libpcap.c").
Print unsigned quantities in Wiretap messages with "%u", not "%d".
svn path=/trunk/; revision=544
and in different capture files; throw in some heuristics to try to
figure out whether the 4-byte header is:
1) PPP-over-HDLC (some version of ISDN4BSD?);
2) big-endian AF_ value (BSD on big-endian platforms);
3) little-endian AF_ value (BSD on little-endian platforms);
4) two octets of 0 followed by an Ethernet type (Linux, at least
on little-endian platforms, as mutated by "libpcap").
Make a separate Wiretap encapsulation type, WTAP_ENCAP_NULL,
corresponding to DLT_NULL.
Have the PPP code dissect the frame if it's PPP-over-HDLC, and have
"ethertype()" dissect the Ethernet type and the rest of the packet if
it's a Linux-style header; dissect it ourselves only if it's an AF_
value.
Have Wiretap impose a maximum packet size of 65535 bytes, so that it
fails more gracefully when handed a corrupt "libpcap" capture file
(other capture file formats with more than a 16-bit capture length
field, if any, will have that check added later), and put that size in
"wtap.h" and have Ethereal use it as its notion of a maximum packet
size.
Have Ethereal put up a "this file appears to be damaged or corrupt"
message box if Wiretap returns a WTAP_ERR_BAD_RECORD error when opening
or reading a capture file.
Include loopback interfaces in the list of interfaces offered by the
"Capture" dialog box, but put them at the end of the list so that it
doesn't default to a loopback interface unless there are no other
interfaces. Also, don't require that an interface in the list have an
IP address associated with it, and only put one entry in the list for a
given interface (SIOCGIFCONF returns one entry per interface *address*,
not per *interface* - and even if you were to use only IP addresses, an
interface could conceivably have more than one IP address).
Exclusively use Wiretap encapsulation types internally, even when
capturing; don't use DLT_ types.
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file, instead of throwing out all but LANE or RFC 1483 data frames and
pretending that the former are just Ethernet or Token-Ring frames.
Add some level of decoding for ATM LANE, but not all of it; the rest,
including decoding non-LANE frames, is left as an exercise for somebody
who has captures they want to decode, an interest in decoding them, ATM
expertise, and time....
svn path=/trunk/; revision=523
variable from lanalyzer_t (plus an additional variable which wasn't being
used). While I was in there I cleaned up some comments and renamed a couple
variables to make more sense.
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return 1 on success, -1 if they got an error, and 0 if the file isn't of
the type that file is checking for, and supply an error code if they
return -1; have "wtap_open_offline()" use that error code. Also, have
the per-capture-file-type open routines treat errors accessing the file
as errors, and return -1, rather than just returning 0 so that we try
another file type.
Have the per-capture-file-type read routines "wtap_loop()" calls return
-1 and supply an error code on error (and not, as they did in some
cases, call "g_error()" and abort), and have "wtap_loop()", if the read
routine returned an error, return FALSE (and pass an error-code-pointer
argument onto the read routines, so they fill it in), and return TRUE on
success.
Add some new error codes for them to return.
Now that "wtap_loop()" can return a success/failure indication and an
error code, in "read_cap_file()" put up a message box if we get an error
reading the file, and return the error code.
Handle the additional errors we can get when opening a capture file.
If the attempt to open a capture file succeeds, but the attempt to read
it fails, don't treat that as a complete failure - we may have managed
to read some of the capture file, and we should display what we managed
to read.
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can't translate the encapsulation type, it should return an
encapsulation type; we add a new one, WTAP_ENCAP_UNKNOWN. and have it
return that.
Have "capture()" handle "wtap_pcap_encap_to_wtap_encap()" returning that
encapsulation type (if it happens, we need to add a new Wiretap
encapsulation type to handle the new "libpcap" encapsulation type).
svn path=/trunk/; revision=513
for errors when closing a file to which we've written packets (we don't
bother checking if we're giving up on a capture).
Add some more error checks in Wiretap.
Make a single list of all Wiretap error codes, giving them all different
values (some can be returned by more than one routine, so they shouldn't
be per-routine).
svn path=/trunk/; revision=510
write them in "libpcap" format, but the mechanism can have other formats
added.
When creating the temporary file for a capture, use "create_tempfile()",
to close a security hole opened by the fact that "tempnam()" creates a
temporary file, but doesn't open it, and we open the file with the name
it gives us - somebody could remove the file and plant a link to some
file, and, if as may well be the case when Ethereal is capturing
packets, it's running as "root", that means we write a capture on top of
that file.... (The aforementioned changes to Wiretap let you open a
capture file for writing given an file descriptor, "fdopen()"-style,
which this change requires.)
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reason for the failure, and have it do the checks to make sure the file
being opened is a plain file or a pipe.
Have "open_cap_file()" make use of that.
Don't automatically set "last_open_dir" if a "-r" flag was specified on
the command line - do so only if the file in question could actually be
opened.
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wiretap support for RADCOM Ltd.'s WAN/LAN analyzers (see
http://www.radcom-inc.com/
). Note: as I remember, IEEE 802.2/ISO 8022 LLC has somewhat of an SDLC
flavor to it, just as I think LAP, LAPB, LAPD, and so on do, so we may
be able to combine some of the LLC dissection and the LAPB dissection
into common code that could, conceivably be used for other SDLC-flavored
protocols.
Make "S" a mnemonic for "Summary" in the "Tools" menu.
Move the routine, used for the "Tools/Summary" display, that turns a
wiretap file type into a descriptive string for it into the wiretap
library itself, expand on some of its descriptions, and add an entry for
files from a RADCOM analyzer.
Have "Tools/Summary" display the snapshot length for the capture.
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but does not link. Perhaps someone who understands the MS tools can help
out. I made it link a few months ago, but with different version of glib/gtk+.
I can't remember how I made it link.
Most of the compatibility issues were resolved with adding
#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H the the source code. Please be sure to add this to all
future code.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=359
mechanism that is built into ethereal. Wiretap is now used to read all
file formats. Libpcap is used only for capturing.
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supplied by Tim Farley.
Tim also indicated that the Network Monitor network types may be NDIS
network types+1. It also appears that NetXRay/Windows Sniffer network
types may be NDIS network types as well.
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proto*() functions. The configure script tries to use ipv6 name resolution if
it knows the type of ipv6 stack the user has (this can be avoided with the
--disable-ipv6 switch) Additionally, the configure script now deals with wiretap
better. If the user doesn't want to compile wiretap, the wiretap is never
visited. A few unnecessary #includes were removed from some wiretap files, and
a CPP macro was moved from bpf.c to wtap.h.
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This assumes that the time stamps are still in units of microseconds; I
don't yet have a text decode of the version-2.001 file from the program
that decoded it, so I can't check the time stamps.
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appears to be the UNIX "time_t" when the capture started, so use that to
figure out the time when a packet was captured.
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by Network General (subsequently merged with McAfee Associates into
Network Associates), called "Sniffer Basic".
A similar format appears to be used by the Windows Sniffer Pro.
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filename as the parameter. So far all the filetypes that wiretap can read
can be inferred from the first few bytes of the file, so we never
have to give wiretap a hint as to the file type.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=173
This necessitated a change in ethereal because iptrace supports multi-NIC
packet capturing, including multi-datalink-type capturing.
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That requires that, in the packet-reading loop, we pass to the callback
routine the offset in the file of a packet's data, because we can no
longer compute that offset by subtracting the size of the captured
packet data from the offset in the file after the data was read -
"snoop" may stick padding in after the packet data to align packet
headers on 4-byte boundaries.
Doing that required that we arrange that we do that for "libpcap"
capture files as well; the cleanest way to do that was to write our own
code for reading "libpcap" capture files, rather than using the
"libpcap" code to do it.
Make "wtap_dispatch_cb()" and "pcap_dispatch_cb()" static to "file.c",
as they're not used elsewhere.
If we're using wiretap, don't define in "file.h" stuff used only when
we're not using wiretap.
Update the wiretap README to reflect Gilbert's and my recent changes.
Clean up some memory leaks in "wiretap/lanalyzer.c" and
"wiretap/ngsniffer.c", where the capture-file-format-specific data
wasn't freed if the open failed.
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packet. The date is still not taken into account, so all the traces appear to
start on Jan 1, 1970. But the time of day is correct, so at least you get good
delta times.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=89
wiretap functions to be more generic and therefore allow an easier integration
of more packet-capture file types. I also put in all the GPL copyrights in the
wiretap code.
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because it is still in its infancy, but it can be compiled in optionally.
The library exists in its own subdirectory ethereal/wiretap. This patch also
edits all the packet-*.c files to remove the #include <pcap.h> line which is
unnecessary in these files. In the ethereal code, file.c is the most heavily
modified with #ifdef WITH_WIRETAP lines for the optional library.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=82
Ashok Narayanan