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From: km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: misc.wanted,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: PC as RS232 Data Analyzer
Message-ID: <2473@emory.uucp>
Date: 22 Jan 88 06:28:45 GMT
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
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Several companies seem to make "lanalyzers" which are just PCs with a
LAN interface, and clever monitoring software.

In the serial RS232 world, I have seen a number of special purpose data
analyzers, which seem quite expensive. Although I suppose they do other
things, a big piece of their functions is just accurately logging the
traffic in both directions, and triggering on certain sequences. It
seems to me that a PC with two serial interfaces could do much the same
thing, and that the software is not especially tricky.

Has anyone seen a product of this sort?


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