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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:30:24 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: incorrect port value in tcpdump output
Message-ID:  <20090331223024.GA70541@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <a31046fc0903311315s2ff30e88jd78b0df036f00a53@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <a31046fc0903311315s2ff30e88jd78b0df036f00a53@mail.gmail.com>

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In the last episode (Apr 01), pluknet said:
> tcpdump'ed from RELENG_7, kernel and modules as of Mar 22 are in sync,
> world as of Mar 18.
> 
> I caught this while building kernel via NFS. The subj host is an NFS server.
> 
> 23:22:03.056098 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 26932, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 160) 172.17.5.168.2355868444 > 172.17.5.167.2049: 108 getattr [|nfs]
>         0x0000:  4500 00a0 6934 4000 4006 6db2 ac11 05a8
>         0x0010:  ac11 05a7 0396 0801 7631 7eb4 37c6 db06
>         0x0020:  8018 40cc 54c6 0000 0101 080a 00a5 d95b
>         0x0030:  da0f fa92 8000 0068 8c6b b31c 0000 0000
>         0x0040:  0000 0002 0001 86a3 0000 0003 0000 0001
>         0x0050:  0000
> 23:22:03.056180 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 10841, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 168) 172.17.5.167.2049 > 172.17.5.168.2355868444: reply ok 116 getattr [|nfs]
>         0x0000:  4500 00a8 2a59 4000 8006 6c85 ac11 05a7
>         0x0010:  ac11 05a8 0801 0396 37c6 db06 7631 7f20
>         0x0020:  8018 71c7 7a07 0000 0101 080a da0f fa93
>         0x0030:  00a5 d95b 8000 0070 8c6b b31c 0000 0001
>         0x0040:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
>         0x0050:  0000
> 
> If you'd look in tcp header then 2355868444 value should be 918 actually
> (as htons(918) returns expected 9603 in hex (0396 in net order)).

That's not the port number; that's the NFS transaction id.  See the tcpdump
manpage, under the section "NFS Requests and Replies".

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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