On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:49:21PM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > I am there fore motivated to start a LAT dissector for Ethereal. Can anyone
> > point me to the protocol specs?
>
> They're probably locked up in some building in Massachusetts or New
> Hampshire in the northeastern US.
>
> I.e., LAT is a DEC-proprietary protocol; DEC have never published a
> spec.
I wonder if you can get the spec on microfiche, like you could with much
of the other DEC documentation.
Searching for "lat protocol" on Compaq's site turns up
http://www.openvms.digital.com/wizard/wiz_1762.html, which says
" The Local Area Terminal (LAT) protocol specifications and internals are
licensed. If you wish to order a LAT license, please contact Compaq
sales directly."
> However, at
>
> http://linux-decnet.sourceforge.net/
>
> is the Linux DECNET project page; if you go to
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-decnet/
>
> there's a link for latd 1.0, a LAT daemon.
>
> I downloaded an older version of latd and started working on a LAT
> dissector; I've attached what I have so far. It compiles (or it did
> last time I tried it, which wasn't too long ago, I think), and it
> dissects some LAT stuff, but not all of it. It probably should be
> changed to use the new string stuff Gilbert stuck in - as I remember,
> there are some counted strings in the protocol.
>
