From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-07-16T23:57:00+09:00
Subject: Re: scripting language (fwd)

Carl Youngblood wrote:
> I bet that ethereal would come in handy for reverse engineering the
> protocol.  Just set it up to capture the network traffic, run a bunch
> of queries on a machine that has the client installed and then dump
> the traffic to a file for detailed analysis.

It is VERY handy. ;) I used it a little bit yesterday to get an idea of 
how the TNS requests and responses were formatted.

The hard part (as I see it, being a newbie in this area) is decyphering 
the data portions of each packet. *sigh*

I need to stop responding to this thread... I've got too many projects 
already, and this is tempting me too much... ;)

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Jamis Buck
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