On Jan 10, 2013, at 5:07 PM, vineeth vijay wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Has the de-chunking of SCTP within wireshark been attempted yet? I noticed 
> some old conversations in mailing list in this regard, but nothing concrete 
> has turned up yet. While trying to do this in tshark, I have tried calling 
> tshark's process_packet() function from packet-sctp.c file in dissectors but 
> got nowhere due to linking issues. I feel the way to do this would be:
> 
> 1) Create a global copy of entire frame at initial stage (Is there any other 
> way to access the entire frame structure from packet-sctp where ultimately 
> the decision whether to do de-chunking or not would be made. )
> 2) In case there are several chunks in the packet, allow the completion of 
> processing till first chunk and create  composite tvbs consisting of 
> eth+ip+sctp_header+remaining_individual_chunks.
> 3) Correct IP checksums and length in the composite Tvb.
> 4) Process these tvb's individuallly. (Is this possible with the rule to have 
> a single capture file at a time?? Can a capture file structure be modified on 
> the fly?)
> 
> Is the above process doable without breaking wireshark/tshark processing 
> structure? Can anybody suggest a better solution...
Hi,

what problem are you trying to solve? Wireshark supports dissecting the upper 
layer paylaod
for bundled DATA chunks for ages...

Best regards
Michael
> 
> Vineeth
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