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Does the LUA dissector API support conversation analysis?

asked 2018-05-30 21:24:59 +0000

kedmison gravatar image

I am writing a dissector for a UDP based protocol that has re-implemented a reliable message delivery using sequence and ack numbers. I've started via the LUA API but now I am running into an absence of information on how to do conversation analysis using the LUA dissector API.

Does the LUA dissector API support conversational analysis?

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Can you be more precise on what you expect? I remember you can set pinfo.something to indicate the request/response relationship, but I'm afraid you'll on your own if you want to implement more.

sindy gravatar imagesindy ( 2018-05-31 12:05:43 +0000 )edit

I want to essentially replicate a lot of the TCP Seq/ack analysis, including timing, but on top of this UDP-based protocol. I found doc/README.request_response_tracking which points to the proto_pana dissector as an example/. That dissector uses conversation_add_proto_data() to add pana_specific info.

[edited to escape the underscores]

kedmison gravatar imagekedmison ( 2018-05-31 12:39:32 +0000 )edit

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answered 2018-07-10 14:37:10 +0000

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updated 2019-01-04 16:39:44 +0000

As far as I'm aware, it's not yet possible to perform request/response tracking with Lua dissectors. I would recommend opening a Wireshark enhancement bug report asking for this very useful feature to be added.

EDIT: Bug 15396 has been filed.

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