On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> My goal was getting both at the same time. Unless I'm mistaken, I can
>> only get either the relative or the absolute seq number.
>
> If you can parse the PDML (XML) output (tshar -Tpdml), the data is
> already there:
>
> <proto name="tcp" showname="Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: https (443), Dst Port: 52457 (52457), Seq: 1, Ack: 1, Len: 0" size="20" pos="34">
> ...
>
> <field name="tcp.seq" showname="Sequence number: 1 (relative sequence number)" size="4" pos="38" show="1" value="eaee29e7"/>
> <field name="tcp.ack" showname="Acknowledgment number: 1 (relative ack number)" size="4" pos="42" show="1" value="368808d2"/>
>
> Here you cvan see that the relative seq number is 1 and that the
> absolute value is eaee29e7 (hexadecimal for 3941476839).
I'm trying to process very large traces efficiently. Parsing xml is
likely a bad option.
> Alternatively, you could use a Lua post-dissector to parse out the
> buffer that backs the field ("seq.range" below):
>
> tshark -Xlua_script:seq.lua -Tfields -e tcp.seq -e tcp.seq_abs ...
>
> -- seq.lua
> local myproto = Proto("dummy", "dummy description")
> myproto.fields.seq = ProtoField.uint32("tcp.seq_abs", "Abs seq no")
> local tcp_seq = Field.new("tcp.seq")
> function myproto.dissector(tvb, pinfo, tree)
> local seq = tcp_seq()
> if seq then
> tree:add(myproto.fields.seq, seq.range)
> end
> end
> register_postdissector(myproto)
Hmm.. When I saw this, I was worried about performance. I tried, and
it only adds an extra 20% time. It solves my problem faster than
writing a patch to add tcp.seqraw.
Thanks a lot!
-Chema
> --
> Kind regards,
> Peter Wu
> https://lekensteyn.nl
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