FreeTDS Development Group

["Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>]

On 08/09/99, "ark AT eltex.ru" wrote:
> nuqneH,
> 
> .another question: is there a way to analyse login packet and determine
> protocol version? any hints?

Under TDS 4.2/4.6/5.0 there are two fields in the login packet which 
specify the protocol and program version numbers. I haven't seen anything 
like that with 7.0. However the login ack that returns comes back with the 
version set.  So, the only way seems to be to look at the packet type 
(first byte of the header).  If it is 0x10 then its TDS 7.0, else look at 
the version field.

Brian