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Re: Snooping on PPP modem connection.

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From: Tom Bird
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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From: "Tom Bird" <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Snooping on PPP modem connection.
Date: 1998/04/27
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