Get parent dissector field

asked 2022-07-05 15:49:54 +0000

Michael Firth
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Hi,

I'm writing a dissector for a new RTP protocol. Because it is high rate, it extends the standard RTP sequence number from 16-bits to 32-bits by having a "sequence number extension" field to hold the high 16 bits.

What would be really nice in my dissector would be to be able to show the full 32-bit sequence number by reading the 16-bit sequence number from the standard RTP dissector (which is the parent of my dissector), and then combining this with the extension.

Is it possible to easily read a field from a parent protocol in this way?

I've seen some similar questions, but they were all about two custom protocol dissectors interacting, not a custom one interacting with a built in one (so I can't and don't want to change the existing RTP dissector)

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There's already an extended sequence number computed as part of the conversation data. Is that what you're looking for? See for example: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshar...

cmaynard ( 2022-07-13 21:55:25 +0000 )edit

From what I can see at a quick glance, the MSBs of that extended sequence number are arbitrary / locally generated. The protocols I'm interested in hold an actual "end-to-end" extended sequence number as part of a "payload header" after the standard RTP header. See the top of page 5 of RFC4175 (https://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc4175) for one example of this - the other protocols I am interested in take their inspiration from that RFC

Michael Firth ( 2022-07-14 10:58:26 +0000 )edit

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....... Flds.FullSeq = ProtoField.uint32("myproto.FullSequence","Full Sequence Number",base.HEX,nil) ....... local rtp_seq_field = Field.new("rtp.seq") ....... function myproto.dissector(buffer, pinfo, tree) ....... local rtp_seq = rtp_seq_field() local esn_val = buffer(0,2):uint() if rtp_seq ~= nil and esn_field ~= nil then local full_seq = esn_val.value * 65536 + rtp_seq.value subtree:add(Flds.FullSeq, full_seq):set_generated() end ....... end

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local esn_val = buffer(0,2):uint() - Returns:The unsigned integer value.

Is the .value needed in esn_val.value?

Chuckc ( 2022-07-14 19:12:48 +0000 )edit

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