# NetBIOS - Network Basic Input Output System # Pattern attributes: marginal notsofast notsofast # Protocol groups: networking ietf_internet_standard proprietary # Wiki: http://www.protocolinfo.org/wiki/NetBIOS # Copyright (C) 2008 Matthew Strait, Ethan Sommer; See ../LICENSE # # As mentioned in smb.pat: # # "This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the Common Internet File # System (CIFS), LanManager or NetBIOS protocol." -- "man samba" # # Actually, SMB is a higher level protocol than NetBIOS. However, the # NetBIOS header is only 4 bytes: not much to match on. # # http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/SMB.html # See also RFCs 1001 and 1002. # # This pattern attempts to match the (Session layer) NetBIOS Session request. # If sucessful, you may be able to match NetBIOS several packets earlier # than if you just waited for the easier-to-match SMB header. # # This pattern is untested. netbios # session request byte, three bytes of flags and length. Then # there should be a big mess of letters between A and P which represent # the NetBIOS names of the involved computers (with a null between them). # (40ish here, damn this regexp implementation and its lack of {40,}) \x81.?.?.[A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P][A-P]