DiscardProtocol

discard

The discard protocol allows a client to send arbitrary data to a server. The data is then silently dropped.

History

The discard protocol is one of the first protocols implemented atop TCP and UDP; it is described in RFC 863.

Protocol dependencies

Example traffic

No example is needed, since the protocol accepts any data and does not reply.

Wireshark

No discard dissector exists; it would only mark the packet as a discard protocol packet in the summary.

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 Discard display filter fields can be found in the display filter reference

Show only the discard based traffic:

 discard 

Capture Filter

You cannot directly filter discard while capturing. However, if you know the TCP port used (see above), you can filter on that one.

Capture only the discard traffic over the default port (9):

 tcp port 9 

External links

Discussion


Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/DiscardProtocol on 2020-08-11 23:13:33 UTC