Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Error in IPv6 address decompression from 6LoWPAN packets

[Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi João,

Please create a bug in bugtracker ( https://bugs.wireshark.org ) with a pcap sample to reproduce this issue.

Regards,

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:02 PM, João Amaral <jpgamaral@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

After some careful reading, I think there's a bug in Wireshark's IPv6 address decompression from 6LoWPAN packets. The 6LoWPAN header of the packets is IPHC.

Where it shows fe80::ff:fe00:2, it should instead show fe80::22:ff:fe00:2, because 0x22 is the PAN ID (by default).

References:

• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4944#page-13
• http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos-wiki/index.php/BLIP_2.0_Tutorial#Static_Address_Mode

Best regards.

João Amaral

MSc Student at University of Beira Interior, Portugal

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