Triggering and Capturing Data Over Network

Hi All,

looking for some help once again.
I am working with a bowling scoring system, and I want to capture the scores from the lanes at roughly 30 second intervals, by using data sent over the network.

The system in question only communicates the score over the network, if the another computer requests a 'score correction'. Now it doesn't need to actually do the score correction, and any machine can request it.

Once the lane computer receives this request, it duly returns the current scores back over the network.

Unfortunately I have pretty much no network programming experience, and so I turn to some clever people to assist me...

I have captured some network data using Wireshark and attached to this post. Some of the relevant packet? numbers are 105 (I think this is a request for score change)? and 107 (Which contains scoring information). (it is a pcap file. I renamed the extenstion to .txt to upload).

It might be useful to know that the PC I was using to capture was IP address 192.168.127.1 and the lane computer was 192.168.19.58

If anyone can help me with this or point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.

Thanks

Andy

what kind of bowling scoring system?

Steltronic

Okay, I have an update to this.

I found that the scores from all lanes are being stored on the server and updated. The update occurs each time a change occurs on any of the lane scorers.

The scores are being stored in a file for each lane, and they look like binary files. What I now need is some help in decoding them. If anyone fancies taking a look for me and pointing me in the right direction of how to extract the data from these files I would really appreciate it.

(I have added .txt to the extension to allow upload, they are stored as *.001 *.002 etc on the server, the number representing the lane)

Thanks

Andy

can you not just ask the people who made the system that creates these files (Steltronic I assume) for help?

I have done to no avail yet.

However, I spent alot of time on this over the weekend and 'cracked' the files. So my problem is solved :D

Thanks

Andy