Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] TDS / SQL Decodes

[Bernie Davidovics <bernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy,

So is TDS a Microsoft proprietary protocol these days? Is there really 
no way to get or buy the full protocol documentation?

Bernie.


On Aug 8, 2004, at 3:19 AM, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 02:51:05AM -0400, Bernie Davidovics wrote:
> > I am using Ethereal to look at SQL traffic between clients and a MS 
> > SQL
> > Server which rides over TDS. Many of the TDS packets decoded by
> > Ethereal show "UnKnown Packet types" and appear to be confusing
> > Ethereal even though I am sure this is a valid TDS/SQL data stream. I
> > downloaded the latest binaries for Red Hat 9 (10.0 of Ethereal)
> >
> > Is there a more recent decode available?
>
> Not yet.
>
> > Where can I get it?
>
> When Ethereal 0.10.6 comes out, it'll have a newer version of the TDS
> decoder.
>
> Whether it dissects the packet types in question is another matter.  
> TDS
> is *NOT*, as far as I know, fully documented; a lot of the Ethereal TDS
> dissector was developed through reverse-engineering, and it's not 
> always
> the case that everything in a protocol can be successfully
> reverse-engineered, so the dissector might still get confused even by
> valid TDS data streams.


Bernie Davidovics
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