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Article #404Re: Snooping on PPP modem connection.
From: Tom Bird
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 00:00
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Ian Stirling <00003543B9B2.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote in article <00003543B9B2.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk>... > Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote: > : Ian Stirling <0000353476BF.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote in article > : <0000353476BF.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk>... > > :> Sorry, I'm not looking for samba, I have it installed, unless there is > :> some way to do PPP snooping on a client using SMB, which I doubt. > > : I've had a new idea on this - get a modem and plug it into another > : machine's COM1. Next, run a null modem cable from machine 2 to the main > : one. Then, write a bit of code to link COM1 to COM2 and display all > : traffic on the screen of machine 2, effectively making machine 2 a link > : between the main machine and the modem. > > : That way, all characters that go to the modem go to machine 2's screen as > : well. > > This is the easy bit, trivially done with the correct cabling. > The hard bit is decoding this data into something usefull. Also, there is IIRC, an option on PPPD to dieplay all packets... I think. Shouldn't it go <packet header> DATA <packet end> or something like that... you can probably get a book on PPP. TB
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103eaf,99252ca71c35871a X-Google-Attributes: gid103eaf,public X-Google-Thread: fac57,99252ca71c35871a X-Google-Attributes: gidfac57,public From: "Tom Bird" <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Snooping on PPP modem connection. Date: 1998/04/27 Message-ID: <01bd71f4$0b3abe40$0100b51f@dbqa.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 348151787 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: dbqa.demon.co.uk:194.222.32.233 References: <0000352FECBD.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk> <01bd65aa$f485d860$0100b51f@dbqa.demon.co.uk> <00003530BE5B.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk> <01bd6671$8f62db00$0100b51f@dbqa.demon.co.uk> <0000353265BF.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk> <01bd67ce$ad369000$0100b51f@dbqa.demon.co.uk> <0000353476BF.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk> <01bd7086$51350640$0100b51f@dbqa.demon.co.uk> <00003543B9B2.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk> To: comp.protocols.ppp,demon.tech.unix X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 893702404 nnrp-09:15905 NO-IDENT dbqa.demon.co.uk:194.222.32.233 Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,demon.tech.unix