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

[Markus Plail]

Hiu Pawel!

* Pawel Kot writes:
> 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.

Worth a try. I will test it today and let you know.

Regards
Markus