Wireshark improvements
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* General maintenance, bug-fixing  | * General maintenance, bug-fixing  | ||
* Given knowledge of the appropriate keys, decrypt and dissect privacy-encoded calls and replies.  | * Given knowledge of the appropriate keys, decrypt and dissect privacy-encoded calls and replies.  | ||
| + | * parse EXCHANGE_ID flags  | ||
| + | * Spurious unparsed data at end of RECLAIM_COMPLETE request/reply?  | ||
| + | * Fix parsing of fs_layout_type?  (Getting unhelpful parsing of zero-length array, spurious "Malformed Packet: NFS".)  | ||
| + | * Fix list of compound ops in packet-list pane (currently tends to include lots of spurious test-stateid's for some reason).  | ||
| + | * Handle open delegation WANT_ flags.  | ||
Is all of this done now?:  | Is all of this done now?:  | ||
Latest revision as of 20:42, 20 October 2010
Wireshark (previously known as Ethereal) is invaluable for understanding what's happening on the wire between a client and server, but it could be better. Some examples:
- General maintenance, bug-fixing
 - Given knowledge of the appropriate keys, decrypt and dissect privacy-encoded calls and replies.
 - parse EXCHANGE_ID flags
 - Spurious unparsed data at end of RECLAIM_COMPLETE request/reply?
 - Fix parsing of fs_layout_type? (Getting unhelpful parsing of zero-length array, spurious "Malformed Packet: NFS".)
 - Fix list of compound ops in packet-list pane (currently tends to include lots of spurious test-stateid's for some reason).
 - Handle open delegation WANT_ flags.
 
Is all of this done now?:
- callback channel decoding: in 4.1 case, this is easy. In 4.0 case, requires seeing the setclientid call.
 - Update to 4.1. (Mostly done: may still be some odds an ends missing, though.
 - Add decoders for rpcbind protocol versions 3 and 4. (Done or not?)
 - Test to make sure all existing NFS and RPC related decoders work nicely with IPv6. (?)