Yahoo YMSG Messenger Protocol (YMSG)
The protocol has changed in the last version of Yahoo Messenger. The service verification and the login are done on the port 199.
XXX - add a brief YMSG description here
History
XXX - add a brief description of YMSG history
Protocol dependencies
- TCP: Typically, YMSG uses TCP as its transport protocol. There is no well known TCP port for YMSG traffic but 5050 seems to be often used.
Example traffic
XXX - Add example traffic here (as plain text or Wireshark screenshot).
Wireshark
The YMSG dissector is (fully functional, partially functional, not existing, ... whatever the current state is). Also add info of additional Wireshark features where appropriate, like special statistics of this protocol.
Preference Settings
(XXX add links to preference settings affecting how YMSG is dissected).
Example capture file
XXX - Add a simple example capture file to the SampleCaptures page and link from here (see below). Keep this file short, it's also a good idea to gzip it to make it even smaller, as Wireshark can open gzipped files automatically.
Display Filter
A complete list of YMSG display filter fields can be found in the display filter reference
Show only the YMSG based traffic:
ymsg Capture Filter
You cannot directly filter YMSG protocols while capturing. However, if you know the TCP port used (see above), you can filter on that one.
Capture only the YMSG traffic over the default port (5050):
tcp port 5050 External links
Discussion
Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/YMSG on 2020-08-11 23:27:50 UTC