用示波器看 UDP 封包...

Hacker News Daily 上看到「From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story」這篇講怎麼用示波器挖出 UDP 封包的方法。不是用邏輯分析儀,而是用示波器...

上面示波器的圖片可以查到作者是用 Tektronix6 Series MSO,看起來停賣了,但類似的型號應該是百萬等級...

所以真的是打算從 L1 層一路解到 L4 層:

The rest of this post will take us from these raw voltage waveforms all the way to decoded UDP packets. Hold on tight, we're going from L1 all the way to L4.

網路設備是 VSC7448 這顆 52-port 10Gbps switch:

不過這邊提到一秒可以打 30K 的 UDP 封包出來,對於這台 switch 應該是沒滿才對,而且速度上應該也不到 10Gbps,加上作者提到的是 QSGMII,有可能是跑 1Gbps 的速度在抓:

The oscilloscope doesn't have a built-in QSGMII analyzer (and we'll want to do fairly sophisticated processing of the data), so I wanted to export waveform data to my computer.

I knew that a device on the network was emitting about 30K UDP packets per second, or one packet every 33 µs. I configured the oscilloscope to collect 100M samples at 1 TSPS (tera-sample per second, 1012), which multiplies out to 100 µs of data; this means we should catch 1-3 UDP packets.

看起來只是抓個意思意思練練手而已,抓 1 到 3 個 UDP 封包。

後面就是一堆數學處理... 看起來前面有一小段程式碼是 Python,但後面的程式碼有人知道是什麼語言嗎?