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Title: Linux - Serial Sniffer         
Version: 06OCT99      
Entered-date: 06OCT99 
Description: The Linux Serial Sniffer is a serial line monitor that watches
             the bidirectional traffic over a single RS232 line, between
             a foreign computer (Win98) and a "device under test", decodes the
             traffic and saves it on a user defined disk file. Initial release
             has one or two minor bugs (being worked on), and the program has
             been tested up to and including 115200 baud (ttyS0/S1) and to
             230400 baud rate (ttyR4/R5) on a Comtrol Rocket MultiPort Card.

             Formatted output indicates the direction of the data, the
             accululated number of bytes transferred in each direction, hex
             and ASCII data display, and release 0.5 makes available
             pluggable user defined filters for personal serial customising.

             The Serial Sniffer can operate in two modes. Mode 1 - runs the
             sniffer in a unobtrusive no delay mode  that monitors all traffic
             via a two IC RS232 buffer circuit (Full wiring and doco included).
             Mode 2 - runs by intercepting the transmission from the foreign
             OS (Win98), reads it and retransmits it so that a user protocol
             conversion or user protocol improvement can be seamlessly 
             incorporated to open - closed manufacturing protocol approaches.

             My initial development was required to help reverse engineer why
             my Nikon E950 CoolPix camera didn't work too well with the current
             GPhoto releases. (PS: Reverse Engineering is LEGAL in Australia).
 
             Release 0.5 has additional functionality such as user definable
             filters so that you can do a nice duplicate work like :
             "sniffer | tee raw_file | std232 > cooked_file" which allows the
             user to monitor cooked filtered serial activity at the same time
             as saving the raw & cooked output to disk files.
 
Keywords: serial sniffer       
Author: gmkelly@zip.com.au (Grahame M. Kelly)         
Maintained-by: gmkelly@zip.com.au (Grahame M. Kelly) 
Primary-site: metalab.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/misc
               46 kB   serial_sniffer-0.5.tar.gz
                2 kB   serial_sniffer-0.5.lsm
Alternate-site: 
Original-site:  
Platforms: Linux 2.2.0. GCC. Other POSIX compliant UNIX OS's.     
Copying-policy: GPL
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