Re: IrDA sniffing (was: CVS update: SMSC fixes)

[Pawel Kot]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Markus Plail wrote:

> > Indeed. For irda sniffig you would probably need two irda devices, but
> > I think it would be possible to have some irda sniffer (as the portmon
> > is for the serial port) too.
>
> I don't think so actually. I have tried hard to find such a solution,
> but didn't really find one. There was one which enabled a dummy serial
> port which I then tried to use with vmware. Didn't really work
> though. Perhaps with wine.. don't know. But it is surely not as easy as
> with serial communication. Windows totally blocks the serial port which
> is used for IrDA communication.

What about ircomm (the one Feico mentioned recently)? I think it gives a
serial port abstraction level over the irda port. Portmon surly can sniff
such ports.

pkot
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