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authorJörg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de>2004-11-28 17:30:18 +0000
committerJörg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de>2004-11-28 17:30:18 +0000
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Update manuf and FAQ
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@@ -216,11 +216,13 @@ Using Ethereal:
5.44 How can I capture entire frames, including the FCS?
- 5.45 Ethereal hangs after I stop a capture.
+ 5.45 Why does Ethereal hang after I stop a capture?
5.46 How can I search for, or filter, packets that have a particular
string anywhere in them?
+ 5.47 How do I filter a capture to see traffic for virus XXX?
+
General Questions
Q 1.1: Where can I get help?
@@ -269,13 +271,14 @@ General Questions
Q 1.5: What protocols are currently supported?
- A: There are currently 530 supported protocols and media, listed
+ A: There are currently 602 supported protocols and media, listed
below. Descriptions can be found in the ethereal(1) man page.
3GPP2 A11
802.1q Virtual LAN
802.1x Authentication
AAL type 2 signalling protocol - Capability set 1 (Q.2630.1)
+ ACN
AFS (4.0) Replication Server call declarations
AIM Administrative
AIM Advertisements
@@ -283,6 +286,7 @@ General Questions
AIM Chat Navigation
AIM Chat Service
AIM Directory Search
+ AIM E-mail
AIM Generic Service
AIM ICQ
AIM Invitation Service
@@ -292,6 +296,7 @@ General Questions
AIM Popup
AIM Privacy Management Service
AIM Server Side Info
+ AIM Server Side Themes
AIM Signon
AIM Statistics
AIM Translate
@@ -305,6 +310,7 @@ General Questions
ANSI Mobile Application Part
AOL Instant Messenger
ARCNET
+ ASN.1 decoding
ATM
ATM AAL1
ATM AAL3/4
@@ -325,6 +331,7 @@ General Questions
AppleTalk Transaction Protocol packet
Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol
Application Configuration Access Protocol
+ Art-Net
Async data over ISDN (V.120)
Authentication Header
BACnet Virtual Link Control
@@ -365,12 +372,17 @@ General Questions
Cisco Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
Cisco NetFlow
Cisco SLARP
+ Cisco Session Management
Clearcase NFS
CoSine IPNOS L2 debug output
+ Common Industrial Protocol
Common Open Policy Service
Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) Browsing Protocol
Compuserve GIF
+ Configuration Test Protocol (loopback)
Connectionless Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
+ Coseventcomm Dissector Using GIOP API
+ Cosnaming Dissector Using GIOP API
Cross Point Frame Injector
Cryptographic Message Syntax
DCE Distributed Time Service Local Server
@@ -413,26 +425,57 @@ cies
DCOM Remote Activation
DEC Spanning Tree Protocol
DFS Calls
+ DG Gryphon Protocol
DHCP Failover
DHCPv6
DICOM
DNS Control Program Server
+ DOCSIS 1.1
+ DOCSIS Appendix C TLV's
+ DOCSIS Baseline Privacy Key Management Attributes
+ DOCSIS Baseline Privacy Key Management Request
+ DOCSIS Baseline Privacy Key Management Response
+ DOCSIS Dynamic Service Addition Acknowledge
+ DOCSIS Dynamic Service Addition Request
+ DOCSIS Dynamic Service Addition Response
+ DOCSIS Dynamic Service Change Acknowledgement
+ DOCSIS Dynamic Service Change Request
+ DOCSIS Dynamic Service Change Response
+ DOCSIS Dynamic Service Delete Request
+ DOCSIS Dynamic Service Delete Response
+ DOCSIS Initial Ranging Message
+ DOCSIS Mac Management
+ DOCSIS Range Request Message
+ DOCSIS Ranging Response
+ DOCSIS Registration Acknowledge
+ DOCSIS Registration Requests
+ DOCSIS Registration Responses
+ DOCSIS Upstream Bandwidth Allocation
+ DOCSIS Upstream Channel Change Request
+ DOCSIS Upstream Channel Change Response
+ DOCSIS Upstream Channel Descriptor
+ DOCSIS Upstream Channel Descriptor Type 29
+ DOCSIS Vendor Specific Endodings
Data
Data Link SWitching
Data Stream Interface
Datagram Delivery Protocol
+ Decompressed SigComp message as raw text
Diameter Protocol
+ Digital Audio Access Protocol
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
Distcc Distributed Compiler
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse Protocol
Distributed Network Protocol 3.0
Domain Name Service
Dynamic DNS Tools Protocol
+ ENTTEC
Echo
Encapsulating Security Payload
Endpoint Name Resolution Protocol
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
EtherNet/IP (Industrial Protocol)
+ Etheric
Ethernet
Ethernet over IP
Extensible Authentication Protocol
@@ -468,6 +511,7 @@ cies
Generic Routing Encapsulation
Generic Security Service Application Program Interface
Gnutella Protocol
+ H.248 MEGACO
H225
H235-SECURITY-MESSAGES
H245
@@ -489,6 +533,8 @@ cies
IPX Message
IPX Routing Information Protocol
IPX WAN
+ IRemUnknown IRemUnknown Resolver
+ IRemUnknown2 IRemUnknown2 Resolver
ISDN
ISDN Q.921-User Adaptation Layer
ISDN User Part
@@ -499,10 +545,12 @@ cies
ISO 8602 CLTP ConnectionLess Transport Protocol
ISO 8823 OSI Presentation Protocol
ISO 9542 ESIS Routeing Information Exchange Protocol
+ ISystemActivator ISystemActivator Resolver
ITU-T E.164 number
ITU-T Recommendation H.261
ITU-T Recommendation H.263 RTP Payload header (RFC2190)
InMon sFlow
+ Information Access Protocol
Intel ANS probe
Intelligent Platform Management Interface
Inter-Access-Point Protocol
@@ -510,6 +558,7 @@ cies
InterSwitch Message Protocol
Interbase
Internet Cache Protocol
+ Internet Communications Engine Protocol
Internet Content Adaptation Protocol
Internet Control Message Protocol
Internet Control Message Protocol v6
@@ -522,12 +571,16 @@ cies
Internet Relay Chat
Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol
Internetwork Packet eXchange
+ IrCOMM Protocol
+ IrDA Link Access Protocol
+ IrDA Link Management Protocol
JPEG File Interchange Format
Jabber XML Messaging
Java RMI
Java Serialization
Kerberos
Kerberos Administration
+ Kerberos v4
Kernel Lock Manager
LWAP Control Message
LWAPP Encapsulated Packet
@@ -535,6 +588,7 @@ cies
Label Distribution Protocol
Laplink
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
+ Light Weight DNS RESolver (BIND9)
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Line Printer Daemon Protocol
Line-based text data
@@ -546,10 +600,13 @@ cies
Linux cooked-mode capture
Local Management Interface
LocalTalk Link Access Protocol
+ Log Message
Logical Link Control GPRS
Logical-Link Control
Lucent/Ascend debug output
+ MAC Control
MDS Header
+ MEGACO
MIME Multipart Media Encapsulation
MMS Message Encapsulation
MS Kpasswd
@@ -560,6 +617,7 @@ cies
MTP 2 User Adaptation Layer
MTP 3 User Adaptation Layer
MTP2 Peer Adaptation Layer
+ Media Gateway Control Protocol
Media Type
Media Type: message/http
Message Transfer Part Level 2
@@ -610,6 +668,7 @@ cies
NetBIOS Name Service
NetBIOS Session Service
NetBIOS over IPX
+ NetScape Certificate Extensions
NetWare Core Protocol
NetWare Link Services Protocol
NetWare Serialization Protocol
@@ -626,6 +685,7 @@ cies
Null/Loopback
OSI ISO 8571 FTAM Protocol
OSI ISO/IEC 10035-1 ACSE Protocol
+ Open Policy Service Interface
Open Shortest Path First
OpenBSD Encapsulating device
OpenBSD Packet Filter log file
@@ -633,6 +693,9 @@ cies
Optimized Link State Routing Protocol
PC NFS
PKCS#1
+ PKINIT
+ PKIX1Explitit
+ PKIX1Implitit
POSTGRESQL
PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol
PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol
@@ -654,9 +717,11 @@ cies
PPP-over-Ethernet Session
PPPMux Control Protocol
Packed Encoding Rules (ASN.1 X.691)
+ Packet Cable Lawful Intercept
PacketCable
Point-to-Point Protocol
Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol
+ Port Aggregation Protocol
Portmap
Post Office Protocol
Pragmatic General Multicast
@@ -672,6 +737,7 @@ cies
Quake Network Protocol
QuakeWorld Network Protocol
Qualified Logical Link Control
+ RDM
RFC 2250 MPEG1
RFC 2833 RTP Event
RIPng
@@ -679,6 +745,8 @@ cies
RS Interface properties
RSTAT
RSYNC File Synchroniser
+ RTNET
+ RTcfg
RX Protocol
Radio Access Network Application Part
Radius Protocol
@@ -687,8 +755,10 @@ cies
Real-Time Publish-Subscribe Wire Protocol
Real-Time Transport Protocol
Real-time Transport Control Protocol
+ Redundant Link Management Protocol
Registry Server Attributes Manipulation Interface
Registry server administration operations.
+ Reliable UDP
Remote Management Control Protocol
Remote Override interface
Remote Procedure Call
@@ -718,6 +788,7 @@ cies
SSH Protocol
Secure Socket Layer
Sequenced Packet eXchange
+ Serial Infrared
Service Advertisement Protocol
Service Location Protocol
Session Announcement Protocol
@@ -750,22 +821,25 @@ cies
TACACS
TACACS+
TEI Management Procedure, Channel D (LAPD)
- TEREDO Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through NATs
TPKT
Tabular Data Stream
Tazmen Sniffer Protocol
Telnet
+ Teredo IPv6 over UDP tunneling
Time Protocol
Time Synchronization Protocol
+ Tiny Transport Protocol
Token-Ring
Token-Ring Media Access Control
Transaction Capabilities Application Part
Transmission Control Protocol
Transparent Network Substrate Protocol
+ Transport Adapter Layer Interface v1.0, RFC 3094
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
UDP Encapsulation of IPsec Packets
Universal Computer Protocol
User Datagram Protocol
+ V5.2-User Adaptation Layer
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
Virtual Trunking Protocol
WAP Binary XML
@@ -2148,7 +2222,7 @@ Using Ethereal
thinks there is, will display it as such, and will check whether it's
the correct CRC-32 value or not.
- Q 5.45: Ethereal hangs after I stop a capture.
+ Q 5.45: Why does Ethereal hang after I stop a capture?
A: The most likely reason for this is that Ethereal is trying to look
up an IP address in the capture to convert it to a name (so that, for
@@ -2179,18 +2253,24 @@ Using Ethereal
lookup to take a long time.
If you disable network address-to-name translation - for example, by
- turning off the "Enable network name resolution" option in the "Name
- resolution" options in the dialog box you get by selecting
- "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu - the lookups of the address won't
- be done, which may speed up the process of reading the capture file
- after the capture is stopped. You can make that setting the default by
- using the "Save" button in that dialog box; note that this will save
- all your current preference settings.
+ turning off the "Enable network name resolution" option in the
+ "Capture Options" dialog box for starting a network capture - the
+ lookups of the address won't be done, which may speed up the process
+ of reading the capture file after the capture is stopped. You can make
+ that setting the default by selecting "Preferences" from the "Edit"
+ menu, turning off the "Enable network name resolution" option in the
+ "Name resolution" options in the preferences disalog box, and using
+ the "Save" button in that dialog box; note that this will save all
+ your current preference settings.
If Ethereal hangs when reading a capture even with network name
resolution turned off, there might, for example, be a bug in one of
- Ethereal's dissectors for a protocol causing it to loop infinitely.
- The bug should be reported to the Ethereal developers' mailing list at
+ Ethereal's dissectors for a protocol causing it to loop infinitely. If
+ you're not running the most recent release of Ethereal, you should
+ first upgrade to that release, as, if there's a bug of that sort, it
+ might've been fixed in a release after the one you're running. If the
+ hang occurs in the most recent release of Ethereal, the bug should be
+ reported to the Ethereal developers' mailing list at
ethereal-dev@ethereal.com.
On UNIX-flavored OSes, please try to force Ethereal to dump core, by
@@ -2206,17 +2286,21 @@ Using Ethereal
$
The core dump file may be named "ethereal.core" rather than "core" on
- some platforms (e.g., BSD systems)
+ some platforms (e.g., BSD systems).
Also, if at all possible, please send a copy of the capture file that
caused the problem; when capturing packets, Ethereal normally writes
captured packets to a temporary file, which will probably be in /tmp
- or /var/tmp on UNIX-flavored OSes and \TEMP on Windows, so the capture
- file will probably be there. It will have a name beginning with ether,
- with some mixture of letters and numbers after that. Please don't send
- a trace file greater than 1 MB when compressed. If the trace file
- contains sensitive information (e.g., passwords), then please do not
- send it.
+ or /var/tmp on UNIX-flavored OSes, \TEMP on the main system disk
+ (normally C:) on Windows 9x/Me/NT 4.0, and \Documents and
+ Settings\your login name\Local Settings\Temp on the main system disk
+ on Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, so the capture file will probably be
+ there. It will have a name beginning with ether, with some mixture of
+ letters and numbers after that. Please don't send a trace file greater
+ than 1 MB when compressed; instead, make it available via FTP or HTTP,
+ or say it's available but leave it up to a developer to ask for it. If
+ the trace file contains sensitive information (e.g., passwords), then
+ please do not send it.
Q 5.46: How can I search for, or filter, packets that have a
particular string anywhere in them?
@@ -2240,9 +2324,23 @@ Using Ethereal
string or byte string fields in the packet; the "contains" operator
can also be used in expressions used to filter the display.
+ Q 5.47: How do I filter a capture to see traffic for virus XXX?
+
+ A: For some viruses/worms there might be a capture filter to recognize
+ the virus traffic. Check the CaptureFilters page on the Ethereal Wiki
+ to see if anybody's added such a filter.
+
+ Note that Ethereal was not designed to be an intrusion detection
+ system; you might be able to use it as an IDS, but in most cases
+ software designed to be an IDS, such as Snort or Prelude, will
+ probably work better.
+
+ The Bleeding Edge of Snort has a collection of signatures for Snort to
+ detect various viruses, worms, and the like.
+
Please send support questions about Ethereal to the
ethereal-users[AT]ethereal.com mailing list.
For corrections/additions/suggestions for this web page (and not
Ethereal support questions), please send email to
ethereal-web[AT]ethereal.com .
- Last modified: Sat, September 25 2004.
+ Last modified: Thu, November 18 2004.