rc4 - Packet Sniff

Packet sniffing in rc4 seems to have a few small bugs. I had a the interface filter set to a specific entry but I still recorded / show some packets from other interfaces. Only a few packets though, not all. I have a screenshot if needed.

Sorting by the time column does not work correctly. I am showing packets with time stamps that are out of order slightly (by a few seconds each).

When downloading the saved pcap from the router and viewing with Ethereal the timestamps on packets are not correct. Instead of time increasing from 0 it is being decreased from 0. (-1 second, -2 seconds, -400 seconds, etc) In 2.8 the timestamps were using the router time - this is essential for evidence captures and will hopefully be fixed soon in 2.9.

It would also be nice to have a refresh button in the packet sniffer window as well. I see F5 works to refresh the listing although I’m sure not many people know that. A refresh upon changing tabs would also be nice, otherwise there is nothing shown.

Another nice option would be an go up/down packet button when viewing the ASCII/HEX dump of the packets within the winbox tool. Having to click back to the main window, double click the next line, then switch to the packet tab is a lot of steps to trace a quick conversation.

Keep up the good work!
Sam

After some heavy usage (or something else unknown) it seems winbox cannot tell whether sniffer is running or not. Hitting stop or start within winbox does nothing, status always shows ‘running’ however when using command interface it shows stopped.

Sam

Another bug - packet sniffs (pcap) files show timestamps from the 1970 period from 12:00… Its not using the routers time correctly 100% of the time. It seems as though sometimes it does, and sometimes it does not, not sure why the difference. The time on the router is 100% accurate at all times that i have checked and there are no log entries about it being changed.

Having correct timestamps on packet sniffs is very important to us, without it we cannot use MT sniffs for evidence traces.

Sam