Re: Snooping on PPP modem connection.

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From: Tom Bird
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 00:00

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Ian Stirling <0000352FECBD.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<0000352FECBD.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk>...
> Anyone know how to take raw bytestreams, and produce a tcpdump-like
> dump of the packets going over a PPP connection? Preferably without
> having to write a PPP stack.
> I'm trying to reverse engineer the protocols used to talk to an online
> service, so I can make a linux client.
> It's currently running on windows.

The easy way to do this would be to download the telnet specification
RFC's.

I was writing a client similar to this but I knocked it on the head a while
ago.

The telnet stuff for port 23 (the default for unspecified) on Linux is a
different protocol.  Things like mail (25 / 110) and news (119) are just 7
bit ASCII.

TB

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Date: 1998/04/12
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