every 2nd echo-request malformed when ping -s >4067
Kevin Oberman
kob6558 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 04:29:15 UTC 2012
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:55:25AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:12:39AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 08:02:35PM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
>> > > Please find attached the requested info.
>> >
>> > Thanks, got 'em! I'll reply in a follow-up mail with the decoded
>> > results.
>>
>> As promised, here are the decoded results. Took me longer than I
>> expected since I started going down the road of IP options and then was
>> like, "no, wait a minute, this is ICMP gah!". Opinions are at the
>> bottom. Gosh I hope I didn't botch a copy-paste on this one...
>>
>> 17:58:08.481888 IP 10.5.49.126 > 10.5.49.65: ICMP echo request, id 49423, seq 0, length 4076
>> 0x0000: 4500 1000 1fff 4000 4001 9435 0a05 317e
>> 0x0010: 0a05 3141 0800 a352 c10f 0000 5088 2c30
>> 0x0020: 0007 5a3b {...snip...}
>>
>> 0x45 = bits 7-4: IPv4 protocol
>> = bits 3-0: header length: 20 bytes
>> 0x00 = DSF / RFC 2474 stuff
>> 0x1000 = datagram length: 4096 bytes
>> 0x1fff = fragment id
>> 0x4000 = bits 15-13: %010 = reserved bit (0), DF bit (1), MF bit (0)
>> = bits 12-0: fragment offset: 0
>> 0x40 = TTL: 64
>> 0x01 = protocol: 1 (ICMP)
>> 0x9435 = header checksum
>> 0x0a05317e = source IP
>> 0x0a053141 = destination IP
>> 0x08 = ICMP type: 8 = Echo Request
>> 0x00 = ICMP code: 0 = always zero for ICMP type 8
>> 0xa352 = ICMP header checksum
>> 0xc10f = ICMP identifier
>> 0x0000 = ICMP sequence number
>> 0x5088 = timestamp from ICMP data
>> 0x2c30 = timestamp from ICMP data
>> 0x0007 = timestamp from ICMP data
>> 0x5a3b = timestamp from ICMP data
>>
>>
>> 17:58:09.488461 IP 10.5.49.126 > 10.5.49.65: icmp
>> 0x0000: 4500 1000 1fff 0040 4001 d3f5 0a05 317e
>> 0x0010: 0a05 3141 0800 8998 c10f 0001 5088 2c31
>> 0x0020: 0007 73f3 {...snip...}
>>
>> 0x45 = bits 7-4: IPv4 protocol
>> = bits 3-0: header length: 20 bytes
>> 0x00 = DSF / RFC 2474 stuff
>> 0x1000 = datagram length: 4096 bytes
>> 0x1fff = fragment id
>> 0x0040 = bits 15-13: %000 = reserved bit (0), DF bit (0), MF bit (0)
>> = bits 12-0: fragment offset: 64
>> 0x40 = TTL: 64
>> 0x01 = protocol: 1 (ICMP)
>> 0xd3f5 = header checksum
>> 0x0a05317e = source IP
>> 0x0a053141 = destination IP
>> 0x08 = ICMP type: 8 = Echo Request
>> 0x00 = ICMP code: 0 = always zero for ICMP type 8
>> 0x8998 = ICMP header checksum
>> 0xc10f = ICMP identifier
>> 0x0001 = ICMP sequence number
>> 0x5088 = timestamp from ICMP data
>> 0x2c31 = timestamp from ICMP data
>> 0x0007 = timestamp from ICMP data
>> 0x73f3 = timestamp from ICMP data
>>
>>
>> Summary: I don't see anything anomalous EXCEPT the ordeal regarding the
>> fragment offset going from 0->64 and the DF bit going from 1->0.
>> Possibly this makes tcpdump throw a fit in some way, I'm not sure.
>
> Hmm, question: are you using pf, ipfilter, or ipfw on the machines where
> you can reproduce this problem?
>
> On the machine I tested from earlier, I don't use them. I also don't
> use jumbo frames (I use stock 1500 bytes). All my ICMP echo packets
> look like your 1st one: df=0 and fragoffset=0. I do have a 9.1-PREREL
> box that does use pf where I can test from though.
>
> I hate having to ask this question, but pf.conf(5) and the no-df flag
> always come to mind whenever I hear the term fragmentation or DF.
>
> --
> | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at koitsu.org |
> | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ |
> | Mountain View, CA, US |
> | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |
Just a quick suggestion. You could have saved a lot of time and effort
if you would capture the data using the -w option and feeding the BPF
file to net/wireshark. It does a first rate job of protocol decode and
even flags errors and inconsistencies.
Of course, it requires a GUI, but the captured data can be copied to a
system that runs one.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com
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