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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2003-07-17 23:08:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2003-07-17 23:08:52 +0000 |
| commit | 5fb05113281c65566a6c7ce8cf778aedb61b801c (patch) | |
| tree | 919ee39e573da8e8330cae0f8732854f0bf029d7 /packet-rpc.c | |
| parent | a7338cabc6588a6242d5ee8552cef60489fc5f4c (diff) | |
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Put in a note about the call heuristics.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=8037
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diff --git a/packet-rpc.c b/packet-rpc.c index 97adf3a420..918c1d394c 100644 --- a/packet-rpc.c +++ b/packet-rpc.c @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ * Routines for rpc dissection * Copyright 1999, Uwe Girlich <Uwe.Girlich@philosys.de> * - * $Id: packet-rpc.c,v 1.131 2003/05/23 17:46:05 sharpe Exp $ + * $Id: packet-rpc.c,v 1.132 2003/07/17 23:08:52 guy Exp $ * * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer * By Gerald Combs <gerald@ethereal.com> @@ -1690,7 +1690,21 @@ dissect_rpc_message(tvbuff_t *tvb, packet_info *pinfo, proto_tree *tree, We already have the message type. Check whether an RPC version number of 2 is in the location where it would be, and that an RPC program - number we know about is in the location where it would be. */ + number we know about is in the location where it would be. + + XXX - Sun's snoop appears to recognize as RPC even calls + to stuff it doesn't dissect; does it just look for a 2 + at that location, which seems far to weak a heuristic + (too many false positives), or does it have some additional + checks it does? + + We could conceivably check for any of the program numbers + in the list at + + ftp://ftp.tau.ac.il/pub/users/eilon/rpc/rpc + + and report it as RPC (but not dissect the payload if + we don't have a subdissector) if it matches. */ rpc_prog_key.prog = tvb_get_ntohl(tvb, offset + 12); if (tvb_get_ntohl(tvb, offset + 8) != 2 || ((rpc_prog = g_hash_table_lookup(rpc_progs, &rpc_prog_key)) |