Metadata Protocol (META)

This protocol uses a variation of the TLV encoding (Tag-Length-Value) to add - basically arbitrary - data to a frame. It is described in full here.

Example traffic

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Wireshark

The META dissector is fully functional. It forwards frames to the Ethernet, FP Hint, ATM (AAL2 and OAM) and ERF (AAL5) dissectors.

Example capture file

XXX - Add a simple example capture file to the SampleCaptures page and link from here (see below). Keep this file short, it's also a good idea to gzip it to make it even smaller, as Wireshark can open gzipped files automatically.

Display Filter

A complete list of META display filter fields can be found in the display filter reference

Show only the META based traffic:

 meta 

Capture Filter

You cannot directly filter META protocols while capturing.

External links

• META Specification A full description of the META protocol

Discussion

Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/META on 2020-08-11 23:16:40 UTC