> In my first experiments some years ago, i wondered if tcpdumping to find
> out the protocol is some kind of reverse engineering? I don't think so.
> LAT is patented i think, but does Compaq care too much about this?

The author is based in the UK.  I _think_ reverse engineering for
the purposes for interoperability is legal in the UK.  I'm fairly
sure it's legal here in Ireland, so it could be an EU-wide thing.

Later,
Kenn