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From: Jamie Le Tual <jletual@kmtechnologies.com>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tcpdump equivalent for the serial port
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:34:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F61D97A.7020202@kmtechnologies.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F61CC14.20607@abcpages.com>

I would probably try to see if I could alter the kernel serial port 
driver,  there may even be an API in the driver for what you want. 
That's where I would start.

Peace,
Jamie

Nicolae Mihalache wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm interested if somebody has any ideea how to write a program that 
> is able to sniff the data passing through a serial port the same way 
> tcpdump is able to show the data passing through the ethernet cable, 
> i.e. without disturbing the application that sends/receives the data.
> I've seen few programs that basically work as tunnels opening a 
> pseudo-console where the application connects and writing on the other 
> side to the serial device. This approach is not very useful because I 
> want to be able to start/stop my sniffer without interupting the 
> communication and also the application can control different settings 
> of the serial port which probably will not be forwarded by the tunnel.
>
> Thanks,
> mache
>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-12 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-12 13:37 tcpdump equivalent for the serial port Nicolae Mihalache
2003-09-12 13:50 ` Mariano Moreyra
2003-09-12 14:01   ` Nicolae Mihalache
2003-09-12 14:08     ` Mariano Moreyra
2003-09-12 14:05 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-09-12 14:23   ` Nicolae Mihalache
2003-09-12 14:39     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-09-12 15:33       ` Nicolae Mihalache
2003-09-12 14:34 ` Jamie Le Tual [this message]

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