Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > I am working on adapting some tcpdump patches for Transarc RX protocol
> > support to ethereal.
> >
> > RX is the lower level protocol. The data portion of it's packets are
> > processed differently according to the different services it is talking to.
>
> This is, surprise surprise, somewhat like ONC RPC, wherein there's the
> ONC RPC protocol, and various protocols (portmapper/rpcbind, NFS, NLM,
> NSM, NIS, NIS+, etc.) built atop it. (I have the impression RX was
> created as an RPC layer atop which to put AFS.)
Yep. It's Transarc's version of RPC.
Since you mention ONC RPC - is there anything actively being done with
it as far as ethereal goes? I saw some various things in the list
archive, but nothing concrete. I'd love to see ethereal have added
support for NIS and bootparams.
> Given that, I'd be inclined to have RX as one protocol, and either
> have AFS as another protocol, or have AFS File Server, AFS Callback,
> etc. as other protocols, rather than having the AFS stuff under the RX
> protocol tree.
Ok. Sounds like a plan. I should hopefully have a patch and dissectors
sometime next week.
-- Nathan
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