Re: [Tora-develop] Oracle Protocol and Packet format

[Neulinger, N. <nn...@um...>]

If someone does manage to determine any more details about the protocol,
let me know and I'll get back into adding more to the wireshark/ethereal
dissector based on that knowledge.

-- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nn...@um...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tor...@li...=20
> [mailto:tor...@li...] On Behalf=20
> Of Alexey Danilchenko
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 3:45 PM
> To: tor...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Tora-develop] Oracle Protocol and Packet format
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> I would add to all said already that if you by some reason=20
> still have a
> genuine need to reverse engineer it then there is a much easier way of
> doing it than with Ethereal.
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> If I were you I would reverse engineer Oracle's JDBC type 4 drivers=20
> (Java) -
> being pure Java they are easier to decompile into readable=20
> form with tools
> like Jad or again if it's not allowed by laws of your country=20
> they are=20
> still
> much easier to plug protocol analyzer into than OCI binaries.
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> Alexey
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> SankalpKarpe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to know the packet format/structure of the different=20
> packets involved
> > in a Oracle transaction between an Oracle 10g client and server.
> > I used 'Ethereal' lan analyzer, but it does not decode the packets
> > completely.
> > There are no documents available that can explain how to decode the
> > data/payload in a Request/Response packet.
> >
> > I also downloaded "tora-1.3.14.1" source code to understand=20
> how the packet
> > is built and sent on the wire. But find it difficult to=20
> understand it.
> >
> > Could anyone help in this regards or provide some guidance=20
> or references
> > that could help me to decode the oracle traffic on wire ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sankalp
> >  =20
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