Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] AIM protocol

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:30:37 -0700
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 06:47:53PM +0000, Will Clark wrote:
> I'm getting tons of Unknown Channel: 5
> entries in the info column for the AIM protocol.
> Barely any decodes.  Any ideas?

>From a quick look at the code, Ethereal's AIM dissector does not appear
to include any code that understands a channel numbered 5.  It knows
only channels 1, 2, 3, and 4.

I don't know whether that's because the author hadn't gotten around to
writing that code, or because he hadn't found any documentation for that
part of the protocol, or what.  The documentation at

	http://aimdoc.sourceforge.net/OSCARdoc/

says nothing about a channel 5.