Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] AIM Message Decoding

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From: "Bill Marinelli" <wmarin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:25:48 -0500
Thank you. Is the 'AIM dissector' a section of the Ethereal source code, or
some separate configuration file?

Regards,

Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bill Marinelli" <wmarin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] AIM Message Decoding


> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:14:34PM -0500, Bill Marinelli wrote:
> > Does anyone know what I can do to decode the unknown messages?
>
> Find a specification for the format of those messages, and either add
> code to the AIM dissector to parse them or find somebody else to add
> that code.  :-)
>
> It's not as if there's some Magic Flag in Ethereal you failed to set -
> there just isn't any code in Ethereal to decode them, because nobody's
> written that code.  I know nothing of the AIM protocol, so I can't help
> you find the specification (and don't have the time to add code to
> dissect them if somebody finds the specification).
>