On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:49:17PM -0000, Graham Turner wrote: > it seems ethereal (v0.9.8) is reporting "Unknown command:17" in the info > field of what i think to be the response from the server to a "SAM logon > request". > > any info on how this can be more accurately decoded would be gladly > received.
If the problem is that the SAMR packet is going to or from a TCP or UDP port for which some Ethereal registers itself, so that the dissector in question attempts to dissect the packet, it can be more accurately decoded if the dissector in question can be modified to reject some packets that don't look correct. (Rejecting packets with *any* error might be a bad idea, as one reason for using a sniffer is to look for bad packets for a particular protocol, and in that case you want the packet dissected by the dissector for the protocol for the packet.) However, we'd need to know what that dissector is; there's nothing in the current CVS version of Ethereal that looks as if it'd report something *exactly* like Unknown command:17 but there are things that'd report Unknown command (17) or Unknown command:0x11 So what's the protocol it's reporting for that packet?