Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] More abour YMSG

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:13:09 -0800
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:12:36PM +0300, Vladimir Lancov wrote:
>  Yes they are beginning with "YMSG", that means "Yahoo
>  Messenger". And I couldn't find in internet a description of any
>  other Yahoo Messenger protocol, whose packets to begin with "YPNS"
>  or "YHOO". Maybe these ones are too old?

YPNS might be the Yahoo Pager protocol.

YHOO might've been another Yahoo Messenger protocol, perhaps an older
one.

>  >>And if "YMSG" means they
>  >>begin with YMSG, then the reason why the dissector rejects them is
>  >>that nobody's added to the Yahoo Messenger dissector the ability to
>  >>dissect the version of the Yahoo Messenger protocol that uses YMSG.
>  Has anybody in developers team intention to do this? Or one has to do
>  it by himself?

Somebody's now contributed a YMSG dissector, which will be in the next
release.