Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Capturing MMS

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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:34:00 +0200
Hi There,

>> What happens if you use the Tools->Decode As.. menu item, and try MMSE?

This is exactly the same which I had in mind. The problem with this is that
if I go to Tools->Decode As.. then there is no MMSE at all (neither in link,
network, transport). Why?

Thanks,
Sandor


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From: Brad Hards [mailto:bhards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:52 AM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: sandor.hadas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Capturing MMS

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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:20 pm, sandor.hadas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am quite new to Ethereal and found a problem I cannot solve. Using the
> Nokia EAIF (MMS Creating) Emulator on one machine, I send a valid MMS to
> another machine which runs an MMS Server. Then the communication between
> the computers gets captured using the "host" capture filter.
> The problem is that the content of the messages are shown in a field
called
> Data (below Frame <n>, Ethernet II, Internet Protocol, Transmission
Control
> Protocol) but this data (which is fragmented to multiple frames) never
gets
> decoded as MMS.
This means (in general) that either Ethereal doesn't have a dissector for
that 
protocol, or Ethereal isn't applying the dissector because that dissector is

disabled or not considered to be applicable (eg, you're running the protocol

on a non-standard port, or some hieristic isn't firing).

In this case, I think that maybe Ethereal doesn't support the protocol
you're 
using, although I'm not at all familiar with the WAP protocols. We do have a

MMS Encapsulation routine - perhaps you can make some changes to 
packet-mmse.c to handle your protocol too?

What happens if you use the Tools->Decode As.. menu item, and try MMSE?

> What should be done to make it sure that I see it in MMS decoded format?
You may need to adapt an existing dissector, or write your own. If so, you 
probably want to come over to the ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list.

Brad
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