Re: How can a packet size be greater than the NIC's MTU?

[Mohamed Lrhazi <lrhazi () gmail com>]

I was not expecting this somehow... When I view a pcap, in wireshark, or
with "tcpdump -r"... each packet has an Ethernet header section, I just
always assumed each such packet is one, and only one, Ethernet frame.....

So, is there way to capture, or view in already captured pcap file, each
frame that a packet was made up of?

Thanks a lot,
Mohamed.





On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Aaron Wasserott <
aaron.wasserott () viawest com> wrote:

> The IP packet size can be much larger than the MTU of an Ethernet frame,
> which is what the MTU refers to.
>
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>
> *From:* wireshark-users-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:
> wireshark-users-bounces () wireshark org] *On Behalf Of *Mohamed Lrhazi
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 03, 2013 7:30 PM
> *To:* wireshark-users () wireshark org
> *Subject:* [Wireshark-users] How can a packet size be greater than the
> NIC's MTU?
>
>
>
> I guess the subject line is all I need to say :)
>
>
>
> am debugging an issue which seems to be rooted at some MTU problem... and
> I notice that a host, according to the pcaps I take, using tcpdump, on
> redhat linux 6.x, the packet size is shown to be over 2500 bytes, when the
> MTU of the network interface is only 1500.... or is a "packet" as displayed
> by wireshark or tcpdump, unrelated to the L2 frames? could there have been
> more frames for that one "packet"? How can I have "tcpdump -r" or
> wireshark, show me the exact frames, so I can see their actual sizes?
>
>
>
> Example, notice the packet with a "tcp size" of 2896, "IP size" is 2948.
>
>
>
> ➜  tmp  tcpdump  -qnr ubuntu-1.mtu1500.pcap
>
> reading from file ubuntu-1.mtu1500.pcap, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet)
>
> 18:09:07.874894 IP 192.168.77.204.55992 > 192.168.77.201.80: tcp 0
>
> 18:09:07.874990 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 0
>
> 18:09:07.878527 IP 192.168.77.204.55992 > 192.168.77.201.80: tcp 0
>
> 18:09:07.878819 IP 192.168.77.204.55992 > 192.168.77.201.80: tcp 85
>
> 18:09:07.878842 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 0
>
> 18:09:07.879982 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 17
>
> 18:09:07.880299 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 2896
>
> 18:09:07.880506 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 395
>
> 18:09:07.882022 IP 192.168.77.204.55992 > 192.168.77.201.80: tcp 0
>
> 18:09:07.882048 IP 192.168.77.204.55992 > 192.168.77.201.80: tcp 0
>
> 18:09:07.883506 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 1448
>
> 18:09:07.883523 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 1448
>
> 18:09:08.087483 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 1448
>
> 18:09:08.495509 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 1448
>
> 18:09:09.311515 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 1448
>
> 18:09:10.947503 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 1448
>
> 18:09:14.223563 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 1448
>
> 18:09:16.463307 IP 192.168.77.204.55992 > 192.168.77.201.80: tcp 0
>
> 18:09:16.463353 IP 192.168.77.201.80 > 192.168.77.204.55992: tcp 0
>
> ➜  tmp
>
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>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Mohamed.
>
>
>
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