Ethereal-dev: RE: [ethereal-dev] IBM Trace Tool present

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From: "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:15:26 -0600
I don't know about the trace tool remove, but I can get you the broke out
packet as the sniffer sees is.

It doesn't do a very thourough job of decoding it though, a bunch of the
bytes are left unidentified. I much prefer the way ethereal has been
written.

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@xxxxxxx
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Farley, Tim (ISSAtlanta) [mailto:TFarley@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 2:53 PM
> To: 'Neulinger, Nathan R.'; 'ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ethereal-dev] IBM Trace Tool present
> 
> 
> >This particular trace also has a "IBMNM: trace tool present" 
> >dsap packet
> >will lots of stuff in it, that may be worth breaking out. 
> 
> Does anyone have info on the internal formatting of that packet?
> 
> I'm also VERY interested in a corresponding packet in the 
> same protocol,
> which I have seen reference to, called "trace tool remove".  
> If anyone has
> info on that PLEASE contact me.
> 
> =====================================
> Tim Farley
> Software Engineer
> tfarley@xxxxxxx
> 
> Internet Security Systems, Inc.
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> 
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> =====================================
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Neulinger, Nathan R. [mailto:nneul@xxxxxxx]
> >Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 2:28 PM
> >To: 'ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx'
> >Subject: [ethereal-dev] problems with sniffer save, need 
> info on adding
> >info to NCP code
> >
> >
> >I was unable to open the saved capture from ethereal (latest 
> cvs) with
> >sniffer pro. It claims it is an unsupported file format.
> >
> >As a note, sniffer pro seems to come with a bunch of different 
> >traces that
> >have a LOT of weird stuff in them. I've been looking at them 
> >with ethereal
> >to see what sort of stuff is in there, but haven't started 
> writing any
> >updates
> >
> >It looks like there are a number of NCP functions that 
> ethereal doesn't
> >identify, for example:
> >
> >create-service-connect    00/02    create a service connection
> >service-request         17/3d   read property value request
> >destroy-conn            24/00   destroy connection
> >
> >I don't necessarily want to add all the dissectors for those, 
> >but since I
> >have the information, I'd be happy to put in labels for the 
> >various function
> >codes if someone could explain how. (I'm not sure on that 
> >ncp2222 structure
> >what should be put in.)
> >
> >This particular trace also has a "IBMNM: trace tool present" 
> >dsap packet
> >will lots of stuff in it, that may be worth breaking out. 
> >
> >-- Nathan
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> >Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@xxxxxxx
> >University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
> >Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216
> >
>