Re: TCP reserved flags: which is it?

[John Sage <jsage () finchhaven com>]

Phil:

/* sorry if I was a bit snappish, earlier.. */

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:18:28AM -0600, Phil Wood wrote:
> Sar-eee,
>
> Everybody is wrong, cause they are refered to in the RFC as
> bit 9* and bit 8!  But, that's in relation to the 32 bit word which
> which is word 3 of the tcp header (start counting at 0 of course).
>
>    0               ! * 1                   2                   3
>    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
>   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>   | OFF=10| | | | |W|E|U|A|P|R|S|F|  Window = 5840                |
>   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>    data   | reserved  | flags     |
>     offset
>
> * ECN-Echo flag
> ! Congestion Window Reduced flag
>
> So, if we go with the flow, bit W (congestion _W_indow reduced (ECN)**
> and bit E (ecn _E_cho sent (ECN))** are the first two bits in the newly(1999)
> defined (6->8) bit tcp flags field.  Consequently, they should be numbered
> bit 0 and bit 1 of the tcp flags field.  Ah, but what happens to all the 
> old documentation that might refer to the Urgent bit as bit 0 or bit 10.
> or when the flags fields expands further into the reserved space?

Yes. Got it.

Actually, I think Chris K had the best point (that I missed entirely,
to begin with): snort says 1-2, ACID says 2-1, tomato, tomahtoe,
potato, potahtoe, both are just indicating that both of two flags are
set.

It is a binary deal, after all.

As far as ACID itself goes, I think it has more to do with how Roman
implemented his frontend into the MySQL database.

acid_qry_form.php has some magic regarding $tcp_flags and powers of
two that I won't even *try* to explain:

<snip>
echo '    <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="tcp_flags[8]" VALUE="128"
'.chk_check($tcp_flags[8],"128").'> [RSV1] &nbsp'; 
echo '    <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="tcp_flags[7]" VALUE="64"
'.chk_check($tcp_flags[7],"64").'> [RSV0] &nbsp';
echo '    <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="tcp_flags[6]" VALUE="32"
'.chk_check($tcp_flags[6],"32").'> [URG] &nbsp';
echo '    <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="tcp_flags[5]" VALUE="16"
'.chk_check($tcp_flags[5],"16").'> [ACK] &nbsp';
echo '    <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="tcp_flags[3]" VALUE="8"
'.chk_check($tcp_flags[4],"8").'> [PSH] &nbsp'; 
echo '    <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="tcp_flags[4]" VALUE="4"
'.chk_check($tcp_flags[3],"4").'> [RST] &nbsp';
echo '    <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="tcp_flags[2]" VALUE="2"
'.chk_check($tcp_flags[2],"2").'> [SYN] &nbsp';
echo '    <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="tcp_flags[1]" VALUE="1"
'.chk_check($tcp_flags[1],"1").'> [FIN] &nbsp';
<snip>

The tcp_flags[8] and tcp_flags[7] are those in question...


- John


> Later,
>
> ** See print-tcp.c in tcpdump source from tcpdump.org.
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 10:59:42PM -0700, John Sage wrote:
> > arf..

<snippage>


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