Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal crashes when Diameter spans multiple TCP packets
Hi all,
somebody maybe could have a look at this, Ethereal crashes when a diameter
message spans multiple TCP packets and Diameter option "Reassemble Diameter
messages spanning multiple TCP segments" is enabled. This happens only on
Windows (tested with 0.10.6 / 0.10.9 / 0.10.9-SVN-13371 ). With Linux
everything works fine.
I`m sorry that I can`t provide any sample trace, cause it includes too many
confidential data, but maybe somebody could see something with this
pointers. I also tested on Linux (0.10.6 and 0.10.9) and there Ethereal does
not crash.
What else I noticed : My Diameter Application runs on 3868 and it seems some
of my Diameter packets are only recognized as TCP and not as Diameter , I
suspect this happens as I disabled the reassembly when diameter spans
multiple segments ?
(TCP/SCTP Port 3868 seems to be the new RFC assigned port , see RFC 3588
Diameter Base Protocol - Section 2.1
>2.1. Transport
>
> Transport profile is defined in [AAATRANS].
>
> The base Diameter protocol is run on port 3868 of both TCP [TCP] and
> SCTP [SCTP] transport protocols.
should this be changed in Ethereal (currently 1812 is the predefined port
used by Diameter)
)
One more thing, it seems that libxml2 is not included with the standard
Ethereal Setup (at least not on Windows) is there any reason, I could not
find any on the mailing list archives ? Maybe it is good to put a message
somewhere in Diameter preferences or somewhere else that this library is not
included but is needed for parsing the Diameter stuff ?
Michael
Ethereal - one of the best pieces of software I´ve ever seen !!!
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