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Re: Snooping on PPP modem connection.

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From: Ian Stirling
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 00:00
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Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
: 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
<snip>
:> 
:> 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.

If I had access to the server, and it was running linux, that would work,
but I'm trying to monitor the data connection between a 95 box, and
a remote server, that I don't have access to.
I may have found a 95 program which can do this, I have yet to get it setup
though, been busy.

: Shouldn't it go <packet header> DATA <packet end> or something like that...
: you can probably get a book on PPP.

I know, I'd like to avoid doing that.

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Subject: Re: Snooping on PPP modem connection.
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