Hi All,

I can confirm that "tcpdump mpls & src net ..." works with the
latest libpcap version! Thanks a lot to Hannes for the update
and to all who adviced me about mpls-related syntax.

Regards,

Sven Ubik

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Hannes Gredler wrote:

> i have just checked in a fix for MPLS code generation into libpcap HEAD
> and 0_9:
>
> ---
> if we have a MPLS label stack deeper > 1 then generate a match
>   for a cleared bottom-of-stack-bit of the previous MPLS shim header
>   rather than just incrementing the offset;
>
> if there is a compined expression of MPLS and IP like e.g.
>   "mpls && ip" | "mpls && ip host" | "mpls && ip src net"
>   then poison the linkoffset to make sure that other code generators
>   do not try to match link-layer protos like Q_ARP, Q_RARP etc.
>
> introduce a new function gen_null() that matches against the first nibble
>   of the IP header and matches if the bottom-of-stack bit is set;
>
> TODO: IPv6 stuff i.e. gen_host6() etc.
> --
>
> so tcpdump -nvvi eth1 "mpls && src net 195.113.0.0/16"
>
> should work now;
>
> /hannes
>
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:17:17PM +0200, Sven Ubik wrote:
> | Hi All,
> |
> | I need to monitor a link with MPLS enabled. Is it possible to filter
> | MPLS packets based on IP header fields? IP header is after MPLS header
> | and tcpdump correctly recognizes that:
> |
> | tcpdump -n -i eth1 -vv ether proto 0x8847
> |
> | 12:01:33.175076 MPLS (label 39, exp 0, [S], ttl 255)
> |         IP (tos 0x0, ttl  60, id 10954, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 1500)
> |         147.32.127.222.80 > 82.57.120.192.11472: . 4380:5840(1460) ack 1 
> win 1728
> |
> | but when I add filter for say source IP address, tcpdump fails:
> |
> | tcpdump -n -i eth1 -vv ether proto 0x8847 and src net 195.113.0.0/16
> |
> | eth1 not found (did you install the module?), down or already in use.
> | Using Linux packet capture on eth1
> | tcpdump: WARNING: setsockopt: Protocol not available
> | tcpdump: WARNING: eth1: no IPv4 address assigned
> | tcpdump: expression rejects all packets
> |
> | when I try just to filter source IP addresses without requesting packets
> | with MPLS headers, it works, but tcpdump returns only packets that did
> | not have an MPLS header (multicast and a few other special packets of
> | inter-router communication):
> |
> | tcpdump -n -i eth1 -vv src net 195.113.0.0/16
> |
> | 12:13:32.240979 IP 195.113.69.53 > 224.0.0.13: pim v2 Join/Prune
> | upstream-neighbor=195.113.69.54 groups=1 holdtime=3m30s (group0: 
> 233.10.47.22 join=1
> | 194.160.9.2(S) prune=0)
> |
> | Thanks.
> |
> | Regards,
> |
> | Sven Ubik
> | CESNET

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