Sir, I thought I was leaving you alone with this!
Anyway basically the packets are encrypted or compressed, there's a flag on the session request for the stream that indicates which it will be; I believe it can be both as well. The server generates a key to send to the client to decode the data as well.
You have larger packets that make up the protocol, things like session requests, whole packets and combined packets etc. Contained within can be the smaller packets, encoded with the key sent from the server etc.
I think we send the key always as 11223344 but obviously were you to do this from live or something you would need to retrieve the actual one to decode the data into readable packets.
in common/EQPacket.cpp there are several functions that deal with compression and encoding of the data as well.
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