[ale] Monitoring the serial port

[Keith R. Watson]

At 15:09 9/4/2002 -0400, John C wrote:
>Does anyone know of a way to capture serial port output of a device onto a
>Linux system and log everyting it sees to a file?
>
>What I am trying to do is connect to a router that spits diagnostic messages
>through the serial port, and archive whatever I see.
>
>
>I was thinking about using a combination of cu and ttysnoop.... Is this the
>best way to go at it?
>
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Of the ones listed below I had a friend use SLSNIF with good results. I 
don't have any performance data on the others.


Serial line sniffer

     SLSNIF Home Page
     http://www.azstarnet.com/~ymg/software.html


     freshmeat.net: Project details for Serial line sniffer
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/slsnif/


SourceForge: Project Info - ssnooper: a serial line debugger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssnooper/


freshmeat.net: Project details for Linux Serial Sniffer
http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxserialsniffer/


SourceForge: Project Info - Serial Communication Tracer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sct/


Conserver

     Conserver
     http://www.conserver.com/


     freshmeat.net: Project details for Conserver
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/conserver/


interceptty

     interceptty
     http://www.suspectclass.com/~sgifford/interceptty/


     freshmeat.net: Project details for interceptty
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/interceptty/


freshmeat.net: Project details for serproxy
http://freshmeat.net/projects/serproxy/


sersniff

     sersniff - Programs - Project Purple
     http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/sersniff.html


     freshmeat.net: Project details for sersniff
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/sersniff/


ttywatch

     ttywatch
     http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/ttywatch.html


     freshmeat.net: Project details for ttywatch
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttywatch/




Here are two applications that will let you talk to a systems serial port 
via telnet:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/serproxy/

Serproxy is a multi-threaded proxy program for redirecting network socket 
connections to/from serial ports, in cases where the remote end of the 
serial link doesn't have a TCP/IP stack (eg an embedded or microcontroller 
system). The proxy allows other hosts on the network to communicate with 
the system on the remote end of the serial link.


http://freshmeat.net/projects/sredird/

Sredird is a serial port redirector that is compliant with the RFC 2217 
"Telnet Com Port Control Option" protocol. This protocol lets you share a 
serial port through the network.


keith
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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/ITD
Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
404-894-0836

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