On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:02:56PM -0500, Gabriela Montero wrote:
> Is it possible to capture HDLC frames from a PC (Windows)?
Probably not.
> I am
> trying to capture frames from a serial synch link between a Base Station
> and a Dispatcher (Private Radio Networks domain).
Programs that use libpcap/WinPcap, such as Ethereal, can capture only on
network interfaces of the sort that "ifconfig" knows about on UNIX or, I
think, that show up as network connections on Windows.
It sounds as if you're capturing on a device that's not connected to the
regular Windows networking stack, in which case you won't be able to
capture on it with any application using WinPcap.
And if it *is* a PPP device, you still might not be able to capture on
it, at least not on any flavor of Windows NT (NT 4.0, Windows 2000,
Windows XP, Windows Server):
http://winpcap.polito.it/misc/faq.htm#Q-6
