Re: Snooping on PPP modem connection.

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From: Tom Bird
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:00

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Ian Stirling <00003530BE5B.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<00003530BE5B.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk>...
> Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> : 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 know how to do telnet, ... that's not the problem, I'm trying to 
> work out when/where some out of band data is being sent.

Like the 'wrapper' around the packet?

e.g. #packet header# --- D A T A --- #packet end#

and you want to see inside the header and end?

Dunno how / why you'd want to do that.

TB

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