Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal interpretation of T.38 T.4-Non-ECM-Sig-End packet

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From: "Lo, Herman" <hlo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:07:04 -0400

Hi,

 

Attached contains a T.38 T.4-Non-ECM-Sig-End packet (packet 2029) reported by Ethereal as a malformed packet.  I’m wondering why Ethereal interprets this packet as malformed because it seems that it is compliant with the T.38 spec.

 

Thanks,

 

Herman

 

No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Info
   2028 90355.000000 47.57.34.205          47.57.34.206          T.38     UDP: UDPTLPacket Seq=01555  data:v17-14400: t4-non-ecm-data[FFFFFFFFFFFFFF...]

Frame 2028 (124 bytes on wire, 124 bytes captured)
    Arrival Time: Sep  4, 1980 20:37:01.000000000
    Time delta from previous packet: 22.000000000 seconds
    Time since reference or first frame: 90355.000000000 seconds
    Frame Number: 2028
    Packet Length: 124 bytes
    Capture Length: 124 bytes
Logical-Link Control
    DSAP: SNAP (0xaa)
    IG Bit: Individual
    SSAP: SNAP (0xaa)
    CR Bit: Command
    Control field: U, func=UI (0x03)
        000. 00.. = Command: Unnumbered Information (0x00)
        .... ..11 = Frame type: Unnumbered frame (0x03)
    Organization Code: Encapsulated Ethernet (0x000000)
    Type: IP (0x0800)
Internet Protocol, Src Addr: 47.57.34.205 (47.57.34.205), Dst Addr: 47.57.34.206 (47.57.34.206)
    Version: 4
    Header length: 20 bytes
    Differentiated Services Field: 0xb8 (DSCP 0x2e: Expedited Forwarding; ECN: 0x00)
        1011 10.. = Differentiated Services Codepoint: Expedited Forwarding (0x2e)
        .... ..0. = ECN-Capable Transport (ECT): 0
        .... ...0 = ECN-CE: 0
    Total Length: 116
    Identification: 0x9804 (38916)
    Flags: 0x00
        0... = Reserved bit: Not set
        .0.. = Don't fragment: Not set
        ..0. = More fragments: Not set
    Fragment offset: 0
    Time to live: 64
    Protocol: UDP (0x11)
    Header checksum: 0x3db0 (correct)
    Source: 47.57.34.205 (47.57.34.205)
    Destination: 47.57.34.206 (47.57.34.206)
User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: 57352 (57352), Dst Port: 57352 (57352)
    Source port: 57352 (57352)
    Destination port: 57352 (57352)
    Length: 96
    Checksum: 0x0000 (none)
ITU-T Recommendation T.38
    UDPTLPacket
        Sequence number: 1555
        primary_ifp_packet_length: 41
        IFPPacket
            Type of message
                Type of msg: data (1)
                    data
                        data: v17-14400 (8)
            Data Field
                Item 0
                    Data_Field_item
                        Field Type
                            Data_Field_field_type: t4-non-ecm-data (6)
                        Data_Field_field_data: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF...
        Error recovery
            Error recovery: secondary-ifp-packets (0)
                Secondary IFPPackets
                    Item 0
                        secondary_ifp_packets_item_length: 41
                        IFPPacket
                            Type of message
                                Type of msg: data (1)
                                    data
                                        data: v17-14400 (8)
                            Data Field
                                Item 0
                                    Data_Field_item
                                        Field Type
                                            Data_Field_field_type: t4-non-ecm-data (6)
                                        Data_Field_field_data: 00B001800C006003001800FFFFFFFFFF...

0000  aa aa 03 00 00 00 08 00 45 b8 00 74 98 04 00 00   ........E..t....
0010  40 11 3d b0 2f 39 22 cd 2f 39 22 ce e0 08 e0 08   @.=./9"./9".....
0020  00 60 00 00 06 13 29 d0 01 e0 00 23 ff ff ff ff   .`....)....#....
0030  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   ................
0040  ff ff ff ff ff ff ef ff fb df ff ff ff ff ff f8   ................
0050  00 01 29 d0 01 e0 00 23 00 b0 01 80 0c 00 60 03   ..)....#......`.
0060  00 18 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   ................
0070  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff               ............
No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Info
   2029 90376.000000 47.57.34.205          47.57.34.206          T.38     UDP: UDPTLPacket Seq=01556  data:v17-14400: t4-non-ecm-sig-end[5F61FF4D37CF2D...][UNKNOWN PER: 10.9.3.8.1][Malformed Packet]

Frame 2029 (106 bytes on wire, 106 bytes captured)
    Arrival Time: Sep  4, 1980 20:37:22.000000000
    Time delta from previous packet: 21.000000000 seconds
    Time since reference or first frame: 90376.000000000 seconds
    Frame Number: 2029
    Packet Length: 106 bytes
    Capture Length: 106 bytes
Logical-Link Control
    DSAP: SNAP (0xaa)
    IG Bit: Individual
    SSAP: SNAP (0xaa)
    CR Bit: Command
    Control field: U, func=UI (0x03)
        000. 00.. = Command: Unnumbered Information (0x00)
        .... ..11 = Frame type: Unnumbered frame (0x03)
    Organization Code: Encapsulated Ethernet (0x000000)
    Type: IP (0x0800)
Internet Protocol, Src Addr: 47.57.34.205 (47.57.34.205), Dst Addr: 47.57.34.206 (47.57.34.206)
    Version: 4
    Header length: 20 bytes
    Differentiated Services Field: 0xb8 (DSCP 0x2e: Expedited Forwarding; ECN: 0x00)
        1011 10.. = Differentiated Services Codepoint: Expedited Forwarding (0x2e)
        .... ..0. = ECN-Capable Transport (ECT): 0
        .... ...0 = ECN-CE: 0
    Total Length: 98
    Identification: 0x9805 (38917)
    Flags: 0x00
        0... = Reserved bit: Not set
        .0.. = Don't fragment: Not set
        ..0. = More fragments: Not set
    Fragment offset: 0
    Time to live: 64
    Protocol: UDP (0x11)
    Header checksum: 0x3dc1 (correct)
    Source: 47.57.34.205 (47.57.34.205)
    Destination: 47.57.34.206 (47.57.34.206)
User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: 57352 (57352), Dst Port: 57352 (57352)
    Source port: 57352 (57352)
    Destination port: 57352 (57352)
    Length: 78
    Checksum: 0x0000 (none)
ITU-T Recommendation T.38
    UDPTLPacket
        Sequence number: 1556
        primary_ifp_packet_length: 23
        IFPPacket
            Type of message
                Type of msg: data (1)
                    data
                        data: v17-14400 (8)
            Data Field
                Item 0
                    Data_Field_item
                        Field Type
                            Data_Field_field_type: t4-non-ecm-sig-end (7)
                        Data_Field_field_data: 5F61FF4D37CF2DF2C75DF0C30CF0DB5D...
        Error recovery
            Error recovery: secondary-ifp-packets (0)
                Secondary IFPPackets
                    Item 0
                        something unknown here [10.9.3.8.1]
[Malformed Packet: T38]

0000  aa aa 03 00 00 00 08 00 45 b8 00 62 98 05 00 00   ........E..b....
0010  40 11 3d c1 2f 39 22 cd 2f 39 22 ce e0 08 e0 08   @.=./9"./9".....
0020  00 4e 00 00 06 14 17 d0 01 f0 00 11 5f 61 ff 4d   .N.........._a.M
0030  37 cf 2d f2 c7 5d f0 c3 0c f0 db 5d 37 c7 00 01   7.-..].....]7...
0040  29 d0 01 e0 00 23 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   )....#..........
0050  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   ................
0060  ef ff fb df ff ff ff ff ff f8                     ..........