Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] VMS UCX$TRACE support patch

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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 08:47:18 -0400
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:02:45PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> Are these all just different versions of the same tool, with the name
> in the first line of the per-packet data, and the format of that line,
> changing from release to release?

These are three versions of the same tool.  When DEC decided to create a
TCP/IP stack, they called it Ultrix Connection (UCX).  When planning
version 5.0, they decided that since Ultrix was no longer supported
(having been replaced by Digital Unix, which was replaced by True-64
Unix), that they would change the name to TCPIP.  Most of the occurrences
of UCX have disappeared.

So, they renamed "UCX$TRACE" to "TCPIPTRACE" to "TCPTRACE".

This is all the same tool.

They are considering creating a version with binary output, but as far as
I know, that is not set in stone yet.

I will send you some output from one of the later tools this evening.  I
will ask an engineer to send more samples soon.

I am not currently working on VMS, so I am limited in what I can
do or test.

-Marc