Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] NCP Packets

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:45:23 -0400
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:14:57PM -0400, Pete wrote:
> I am trying to trace some problems we have been having with Novell 
> logins. Our telecommunications department uses NA's Sniffer to capture 
> the packets and then sends them to me. Unfortunately I don't have access 
> to Sniffer and have been trying to figure out what is happening using 
> Ethereal. Ethereal is a great product and I recommend it to everyone I 
> know, but it does fall short when decoding NCP. I would like to help 
> with adding more NCP decodes to Ethereal, but since I don't code very 
> well, I thought I could start by sending the traces to you and hopefully 
> someone will have time to look at them and add more support.
> 
> Thanks and keep up the great work,
> 
> Pete
> 
> Peter Sailor
> psailor@xxxxxxxxx


Thanks. I have checked in code to handle a few of the NCP types
that are in your trace files. There's more to take care of.
Your trace has fragmented NDS requests in it (NCP code 0x6802).
It will be interesting to see what Ethereal can do with
these fragments in the future, i.e., will the infrastructure
we put in place be able to unfragment the NDS requests????

--gilbert