Wireshark 802.15.4 Post-Dissector

This is a wireshark dissector for a data-packet of the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol. It dissects the following frames of the packet:

1. Data Frame
2. Routing Frame
3. Active-Messaging Layer

Active-Messaging Layer

The Active Messaging layer is used for packets that follow the Collection-Tree Protocol. It isused for transporting a higher-level frame. Since this frame was an important to our work, it has been dissected in this dissector.

How to Install

Follow these steps to load this post-dissector into Wireshark:

1. Download the dissector.lua file to your local machine.
2. Open Wireshark. Select Help -> About Wireshark from the toolbar.
3. In the Help pop-up menu, select Folders
4. Look for Personal Lua Plugins and open the directory associated with it.
5. Move/Copy this post-dissector file to that same repository.
6. Close the Help Window on Wireshark, and select Analyze -> Reload Lua Plugins option.
7. Open a data-packet of the given format on Wireshark, you should see the Collection Tree Protocol tree in the frame details panel of Wireshark.

Credits

This dissector was based off the p2p-wireshark-dissector from hardware-pinoccio