Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] YMSG Override

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From: "Martin Regner" <martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 07:43:10 +0200


Joe Bob wrote:
I am currently working on a Yahoo! Messenger program and I am using Ethereal extensively. My problem is this. Under an older version of Messenger, Ethereal could pick up the YMSG packets and sort them into nice sections with no problem. With the latest version, Yahoo! has moved from port 5050 to 119 which is well known to be the NNTP port. I can only assume Yahoo! done this to solve some of their firewall problems. Now when I sniff my Yahoo! Messenger traffic Ethereal tries to read the packets as NNTP. This is completely the wrong protocol and is almost of no value to me. Is there a way to get the old feature back? 

Disabling NNTP is one way to do it. You should be able to do it from Analyze/Enabled protocols...
If you Save after diabling NNTP you will will disable it on a permanent basis until you enable it again.

/Martin