Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] DOCSIS

[Martin Dubuc <martind1111@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 24, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Martin Dubuc wrote:

> I am trying to decode the packet output from a Cisco CMTS with Wireshark, but I haven't succeeded doing so up to now. The packet output was the result of capturing packets out of the analyzer port after configuring the CMTS using the cable monitor and intercept commands (my assumption is that the packet output is in a DOCSIS 1.0 format). I have read in one of the Wireshark documentation page that there is a DOCSIS decode option in the Edit/Preferences... dialog under the Frame protocol, but this does not match my packet output. When I enable this option, WIreshark interprets the first 6 bytes of each frames as DOCSIS header, then the rest as ethernet frames.
>
> The packet output that I get from my Cisco CMTS is formatted as follows:
>
> 14-byte Ethernet header
> 20-byte IP header
> 8-byte UDP header
> 14-byte Ethernet header
> 20-byte IP header
> ...
>
> I believe that the first 42 bytes is what the Cisco CMTS prepends to the actual user traffic. I would like Wireshark to strip these 42 bytes on the display so that I can zoom in on the actual user traffic.
>
> First of all, I would like to know if this format is actually DOCSIS or not.

If that's truly what the packet looks like - i.e., the first 14 bytes look like a 6-byte Ethernet destination address followed by a 6-byte Ethernet source address followed by 2 bytes of 0x0800, and the next 20 bytes look like an IP header, starting with 0x45 (IPv4, 20 bytes), etc., then that is *NOT* DOCSIS.  It's some form of tunneling of Ethernet over some UDP protocol.

I do nort quite understand why we are not geting DOCSIS out, but you are right, it looks like what we are getting is some form of tunneling of Ethernet over some UDP protocol.
 

> I would then like to know how I can tell the system to ignore the 42 bytes when displaying the packets.

Try running the editcap command on the capture file:

       editcap -T ether {capture file} ethernet-capture.pcap

and try reading ethernet-capture.pcap; it should show you the first 14-byte Ethernet header, followed by the 20-byte IP header, followed by the 8-byte UDP header, and, if the protocol used for encapsulation is supported by Wireshark, it should show you the second Ethernet header and IP header.

I have tried to run editcap, but the output file is identical to the input file. I believe the data link type in the original capture file is Ethernet. So, running editpcap is probably not useful.

I want to tell Wireshark to ignore the first 42 bytes when displaying the packet decode. At present, Wireshark shows the first Ethernet header, the first IP header and the first UDP header, but then it displays the rest of the packet as a big blob of data. It is not smart enough to figure out that what's inside the data field is in fact an Ethernet header, an IP header and whatever else.

Is it possible to tell Wireshark to ignore the first 42 bytes and then decode what follows as Ethernet and IP header or is it possible to tell Wireshark that what follows the first Ethernet/IP/UDP is Ethernet/IP and whatever is valid in that context?

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