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Originally Posted by steve
Are you guys camping out to character select after getting to each zone? Just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something unneeded. And will multiboxing confuse the capture?
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Multiboxing can confuse the extractor and appears to be the cause of blackdragonsdg's crash.
What happens is the extractor reads each packet in the .pcap file looking for an SOE 'Session Request' packet (that the client send to the server).
When it sees a session request, it 'tentatively locks on' to that session and waits until it sees a particular packet (which was OP_NewZone and is
the packet in which the server sends various details about the zone) before deciding this is a valid EQ connection and permanently locking onto
this stream and ignoring all others.
What can happen, is if you zone in a second character before the server has sent the OP_NewZone to the first one, the extractor get's confused
by the crossed streams (oblig. Ghostbusters reference).
I've altered the extractor locally to 'permalock' to a stream when it sees an OP_ZoneEntry packet from the client to the server. This is the second
packet sent and so it is much less likely that multi-boxing will cause an issue, although of course, only the packets to/from the first client to
zone-in will be processed, but that shouldn't be an issue.
I'll push this version out later today when I've looked at another issue.
EDIT: Oh, and you don't need to camp out when you have finished. Just stop the capture and save it.
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