User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

The UDP layer provides datagram based connectionless transport layer (layer 4) functionality in the InternetProtocolFamily.

UDP is only a thin layer, and provides not much more than the described UDP port multiplexing.

Just like IP, UDP doesn't provide any mechanism to detect PacketLoss, DuplicatePackets, and the like.

There are a lot of protocols on top of UDP, including: BOOTP, DNS, NTP, SNMP, ...

UDP-Lite

Are you looking for Lightweight UDP? Then visit UDP-Lite.

History

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Protocol dependencies

• IP: Typically, UDP uses IP as its underlying protocol. The assigned protocol number for UDP on IP is 17.

Example traffic

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Wireshark

The UDP dissector is fully functional.

There are two statistical menu items for UDP available: Statistics/Endpoints which contains a tab showing all UDP endpoints (combination of IP address and UDP port) and Statistics/Conversations, which contains a tab showing all UDP conversations (combination of two endpoints).

Preference Settings

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Example capture file

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Display Filter

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

Show only the UDP based traffic:

 udp

Capture Filter

Capture only the UDP based traffic:

 udp

External links

• RFC768 User Datagram Protocol

Discussion

Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/User_Datagram_Protocol on 2020-08-11 23:27:09 UTC