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Transaction not using time ordered events

huaraz
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Hi,

I am trying to order events of wireshark data i.e. events like

time1  src, dst,src_port,dst_port  SYN  

 time2 src, dst,src_port,dst_port  FIN 

 

time3  src, dst,src_port,dst_port  SYN  

 time4 src, dst,src_port,dst_port  FIN 

 

but transaction creates a transaction  out of the time2 and time  event. which do not belong together despite using startwith and endwith.

I used the following 

eval sdspdp=src+":"+dst+":"+src_port+":"+dst_port
| transaction sdspdp startswith="SYN" endswith="FIN" keepevicted=true unifyends=true | where closed_txn=1 | table time packet_info closed_txn

And I would expect the SYN before the HELLO and FIN, but it isn't.  Why ? 

time packet_info closed_txn

 
 
 
 
2020-10-22 18:51:42.772567
2020-10-22 18:51:42.791144
2020-10-22 18:51:42.933482
50020 → 8089 [FIN, ACK] Seq=930 Ack=119936 Win=81408 Len=0 TSval=2422219150 TSecr=1505344044
50020 → 8089 [SYN] Seq=0 Win=14600 Len=0 MSS=1460 SACK_PERM=1 TSval=2422219110 TSecr=0 WS=128
Client Hello
1
2020-10-22 18:51:42.464082
2020-10-22 18:51:42.492535
2020-10-22 18:51:42.602374
54728 → http-alt(8080) [FIN, ACK] Seq=896 Ack=32983 Win=42368 Len=0 TSval=2422219067 TSecr=2891895242
54728 → http-alt(8080) [SYN] Seq=0 Win=14600 Len=0 MSS=1460 SACK_PERM=1 TSval=2422219032 TSecr=0 WS=128
Client Hello
1

 

 

Thank you

Markus

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion

sample:

 

index=_internal | head 10 | streamstats count | eval _raw=count, flag="A"
| transaction flag

 


before transaction, try | reverse

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