Why Wireshark don't annotate all reassembled packets with "tcp segment of a reassembled pdu"

asked 2020-04-21 15:26:36 +0000

alajeb
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I have a traffic capture that have some packets reassembled PDU but Wireshark don't annotate all the packets that are reassembles with "TCP segment of a reassembled PDU" is my interpretation is wrong or Wireshark don't annotate some packets Here is the capture https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MvaD... We can see that the 7th and the 8th frame are reassembled

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All but the final segment will be marked with “[TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]” in the packet list.

Chuckc ( 2020-04-21 16:38:51 +0000 )edit

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answered 2020-04-21 16:24:13 +0000

grahamb

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updated 2020-04-21 16:25:34 +0000

Only the frames that are partial PDU's are marked in this way, e.g. frame 7. When reassembly has completed, e.g. frame 8, then no such marking takes place.

If you look at frame 8 in the packet details, between the TCP and TLS layers you can see the segments that are reassembled in this frame:

Frame 8: ...
Ethernet II, ...
Internet Protocol Version 4, ...
Transmission Control Protocol, ...
[2 Reassembled TCP Segments (471 bytes): #7(123), #8(348)]
Transport Layer Security

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Could you please explain to me what do you mean by "frames that are partial PDU's"

alajeb ( 2020-04-21 16:28:14 +0000 )edit

@grahamb any thoughts why Frame 6 isn't labeled as a TCP segment?
The reassembly details in Frame 7 show frames 6 and 7.

Chuckc ( 2020-04-21 16:40:41 +0000 )edit

@alajeb

I misspoke a little, the frames contain partial PU's. A partial PDU is when an application layer PDU, in this case a TLS Application Data Protocol PDU, is split into parts in multiple segments of the transporting protocol, in this case TCP. The PDU started in frame 7 is too big (1507 bytes) to fit in a single segment so is split and follows on into frame 8.

@bubbasnmp,

I now see what you mean. Frame 6 has two complete PDU's, then the start of a third one. That PDU is completed by the first part of frame 7. The PDU in the latter part of frame 7 is completed by frame 8.

I suspect frame 6 isn't labelled because it does have some complete PDU's, whereas frame 7 only has two partial PDU's, the end of one and the start of another, this ...(more)

grahamb ( 2020-04-21 16:53:55 +0000 )edit

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