Re: [Pengfork-devel] AOL protocol analysis

[Jean-Charles Salzeber]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 19:06, Nicolas Burrus wrote:
> Which version of vmware are you using ? Mine (3.1) use socket file for fifos, 
> so  interceptty does not work. But as I needed to write a small tool to make 
> AOL com port going throw network (the host with vmware and AOL is not the 
> same than the one which have the modem), I solved the problem writing it :)

I use 3.1 :)
What a tricky system you use! ;)

> 
> I think we should write a packet analyser, because compression and 
> encapsulation make modem output not very readable :) We need to extract 
> packet and then extract FDO tokens, etc ... Do you have started a work in 
> this way ?

There is no compression on P3 & FDO layers, so I don't need one.

> 
> I'm going to try using L2TP protocol with AOL 6.0, but I wonder something 
> (maybe dreaming), is AOL L2TP protocol the same than the one which is 
> normalized, with an RFC, etc, etc ... ?

They may use the RFC, I don't know... The only way to know is to look on
the stream...

> 
> PS : I like your redesign :)

Thanks, there are again some points which could be improved, but I keep
them for later.

> 
> -- 
> Nicolas

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