From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 10 8: 6:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.outerlink.com (mail.outerlink.com [4.19.252.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C026237B479 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:06:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from geostar [4.19.252.5] by mail.outerlink.com (SMTPD32-6.05) id AC421CC0132; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:03:14 -0500 From: "Robert A. Wheeler" To: Cc: Subject: RE: [OT] serial protocol analyzer Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:14:47 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3A0AF50D.16530.974B26@localhost> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a need for something like this - I modified a serial cable such that it had four connectors: DB9#1 goes to device A DB9#2 goes to device B DB9#3 and DB9#4 goes to a "monitoring" system on COM1 and COM2 #1 TX is connected to #2 RX AND #3 RX #1 RX is connected to #2 TX #2 TX is connected to #1 RX AND #4 RX #2 RX is connected to #1 TX #3 RX is tapped to #1 TX #3 TX is not connected #4 RX is tapped to #2 TX #4 TX is not connected Connect signal ground on each to each and monitor using a terminal emulator - Most terminal emulators have the ability to display rather than interpret control characters and escape sequences. You can see what is passing in both directions on the serial cable without affecting it, while not affecting the data stream. What you do not get is timestamp data. Or you can buy serial line monitors that do all this and more. Hope this helps. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Leonard den Ottolander > Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 1:04 PM > To: redhat-list@redhat.com > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: [OT] serial protocol analyzer > > > Hello everybody, > > I was wondering if somebody could point me out a serial protocol > analyzer. > Maybe analyzer is too big a word for what I am looking for (I > could be the > analyzer:) ). What I am thinking of is a piece of software that > listens on > two serial devices, and mimics input from either to the other, in > the mean > time dumping and/or analyzing the traffic. To be concrete: I want > to put a box > with this piece of software between another box and its modem to > analyze the > traffic. > Thanks in advance, > > Ciao, > > Leonard. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > Redhat-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message