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Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium
2022
Session Number:PS4
Session:
Number:PS4-05
Development of Wireshark Dissector for Ethereum Node Discovery Protocol/v5
Junhyeong Ryu, Aeri Kim, Meryam Essaid, Hongtaek Ju,
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Publication Date:2022/09/28
Online ISSN:2188-5079
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Summary:
This paper presents the development results for the Wireshark dissector of the Ethereum Node Discovery Protocol for monitoring and analyzing Ethereum P2P networks. The new version v5 of the Ethereum Node Discovery Protocol applied encryption to the traffic. Therefore, the Wireshark Node Discovery Protocol based on previous versions, such as the v4 dissector, can no longer be used to analyze the network. This paper develops a dissector that interprets encrypted packets of the Node Discovery Protocol based on Ethereum Node Discovery Protocol v5. Node Discovery Protocol analysis can be used to research network properties and improve network performance.