On 2012-09-19 23:30:25 +0000, James Cameron said: > but by far the best sniffer we have at > the moment is Gytha. aka netrek-client-pygame? Hosted at http://james.tooraweenah.com/darcs/netrek-client-pygame ? I think I found my problem, the whole motd handling is convoluted. Poking around client.py:tcp_readable client.py:tcp_readable_steam client.py:tcp_read_more I see some funky handling of "large" packets. Let me poke around more. To be honest I really like the simple and elegant python code you wrote. The obj-c stuff seems messy. -- Bob Tanner <basic at us.netrek.org> Key fingerprint = 9906 320A 8BB6 64AD 96A7 7785 CBFB 10BF 568B F98C