On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Gottsman, Kevin L. wrote:
> I was wandering if someone knows of an IR sniffer. I have seen some of the
> utilities available but I don't think they do what I require. I would like
> to get a device (hardware or software) that works in a similar manner of
> promiscuous mode on Ethernet. It should be able to log traffic between two
> devices without interrupting them. Does anyone know of such device?
I'm not if there's one on the market or not. However, the Jeteye IrDA dongles
I've found to be like "passive" devices. In other words, they will automagically
sniff the IrDA space and drive the com port's RX line. (The Actisys dongles
require initialization, i.e. a driver. Blah) With two Jeteye dongles it's
straight forward to make your own IR sniffer. You can shield the beams so that
each dongles picks up the transmissions from only one device. If you have a PC
with two serial ports, then you can log all of the traffic and time tag the
messages, etc. We did that while developing IrDA code and found it
indispensable! Sorry, I can't give out the source...
Scott
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