PolKA Wireshark Dissector

Dissector for wireshark with Lua programming language to the Polinomial Key-based Architecture for Source Routing (PolKA)

How to Install PolKA Wireshark Dissector on Mac OS

1 - Go to the about menu and then folders

2 - Then put the polka dissector in the lua plugins folder

3 - Next step go to the preferences panel and add the polka dissector in DLT USER

4 - Go to the analyze menu and reload lua plugins

5 - Open the pcap file, ready now just explore and enjoy

How to Install PolKA Wireshark Dissector on Linux

Create the LUA Plugin folder on Wireshark

Help > About > Folders > Click on Personal Lua Plugins

Or create manualy the LUA Plugin folder

mkdir /home/$USER/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins

Download the PolKA Wireshark Dissector

cd /home/$USER/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eversonscherrer/dissector-polka/main/polka_dissector.lua

Reload LUA Plugins

Analyze > Reload LUA Plugins or Ctrl + Shift + L

Next step go to the preferences panel and add the polka dissector in DLT USER (as shown on Mac OS)

Edit > Preferences or Ctrl + Shift + P

Conclusion

In this code you:

The code makes it easier to view the polka package and informations through wireshark.

References

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9165501

https://chalk-thought-7ce.notion.site/PolKA-Project-7452bbe9bd294a9b88791ba9650a7069

https://osqa-ask.wireshark.org/

https://stackoverflow.com/