Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] ICQ dissector not being invoked for ICQ

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From: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:15:57 +0100 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 10:07
> To: Amit Vashisht
> Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] ICQ dissector not being invoked for ICQ
> 
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:22:57PM +0530, Amit Vashisht wrote:
> > However the ICQ packets are shown to be TCP data instead of being
> > dissected and shown as ICQ information. 
> 
> That's because the ICQ dissector doesn't support dissecting
> ICQ-over-TCP, so Ethereal cannot dissect ICQ-over-TCP.

Besides, ICQ2000 and later uses a totally different protocol than
ICQ99 and earlier (it uses the same protocol as AOL Instant Messenger
if I am not mistaken). The (rather limited) ICQ support that is in
Ethereal is for the older protocol (UDP based).

//Peter