On Sunday 26 January 2003 09:09 pm, Jaime Fournier wrote:
> Just out of curiosity what are you trying to do with
> DCE? I wrote a lot of the DCERPC stuff that relatest
> to DFS, and have been working on a DCE client
> application. Just curious.
>
Well, to start off, I really didn't know anything about networking before I
started (I'm not exaggerating much: I started off by reading documentation so
I knew how, why and when to use socket(), connect(), bind(), etc. and I'm
still not 100% confident).
Anyway, I could get some TCP communication going well (built a little
client/server), but for some reason I was having trouble with UDP. So, I
started using ethereal to see what was going where. Then I started seeing
packets which I thought were UDP but ethereal called them DCERPC. Shortly
after I came to the realization that it was DCERPC *over* UDP :)
So, I then started trying to mess with DCERPC, and then tried to hold my half
of the conversation with a windows machine (I could call it reverse
engineering I suppose). Appearently parts of the windows networking protocols
use DCERPC for the UDP communication.
If your client is open source, I wouldn't mind looking at it, but I'm afraid I
wouldn't immediately be a big help.
Regards,
Jeff
