Extended Systems has a product called XTNDAccess IrDA Probe which passively
"listens" to IrDA traffics, analyses them and then displays them graphically
on the screen. The probe has knowlegde of the IrDA protocols from simple Ir
framing, IrLAP, IrLMP, IAS, Tiny TP, JetSend, IrComm to IrObex and IrTranP.

More info on the product can be found in
http://www.extendsys.com/products/umc/irda_e-pt.html#dsheets

XTNDAccess IrDA Probe is also produced by the same people that manufactured
the Jeteye IrDA dongles.
Alvin

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Dattalo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 5:55 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [Linux-IrDA]IR Sniffer




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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