Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [PATCH] Ethereal dissectors for Microsoft Windows NT DCE/RPC

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From: Tim Potter <tpot@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:01:02 +1100
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 08:52:09PM -0500, Todd Sabin wrote:

> > The attached patch and tarball of new files adds a bunch of new
> > protocols for each DCE/RPC service that Samba currently knows
> > about.  These are:
> 
> Can I suggest for consistency's sake that these files be renamed as
> packet-dcerpc-*?  It's going to be confusing if we have both
> packet-dcerpc-foo.c and packet-msrpc-bar.c, and there's really no
> difference other than that one was designed by MS and the other
> wasn't.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

I was expecting a whole bunch of incompatibilities between "real"
DCERPC and MS's version but to my suprise that hasn't been the case.


Tim.