Yes we are trying to do this with software as the sites we are trying to
test are remote sites with dial connections. Some have two modems and
some only have one modem.
Thanks anyway.
Mike M.
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 08:26, Robert Foxworth wrote:
> This sounds like you are trying to do this all in software,
> but if you have access to the ASCII data on a RS232 connnecton
> (i.e. at the physical layer) you might be able to use a bridge
> tap across the RD and SG lines (sounds like you only need
> to look at incoming data) and feed that to another device
> running minicom/tinyterm on its own RS232 port and just
> keep a capture buffer open to collect the data. Using a bridge
> tap is, I think, out of spec but I've done it; the +12 and -12 V
> for mark and space are pretty forgiving and at this low speed
> double-termination echoes aren't a problem. -Bob F
> PS - a bridge tap has to be built by you. CompUSA doesn't
> carry anything like this.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Manchester" <mchester@pobox.com>
> To: "slug" <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 20:34
> Subject: [SLUG] Capturing /dev/tty1A informaiont (help Ian)
>
>
> > Here's the scoop.
> > At work we have a software program (tinyterm) that dials into a remote
> > site and sends and receives mostly ascii data. What we would like to do
> > is echo the traffic through the tty1A (or what ever port the modem is
> > on) to a file. In hopes of this will help troubleshoot connections
> > problems. It would be nice if there was a standard unix way of doing
> > this as we really don't want to install software on a customers site if
> > it can be helped. Is it possible to do something like this using tee and
> > maybe tail -f. We played around with using tail -f /dev/tty1a |tee
> > temp.log but we had no way to close the file thus the data was always
> > lost.
> >
> > Any help / suggestions would be appricated.
> >
> > Mike M.
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