Serial Protocol Analysis Solutions

Multi-serial port protocol analysers
http://www.gumbley.demon.co.uk/ncp.html Linux, freeware, originally developed for Psion communication analysis
http://www.dunfield.com/dlm.htm Dos, commercial ($29.95) solution
In system analysers (one serial port)
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/terminal/ttysnoop-0.12c.tar.gz Linux, freeware, designed for terminal snooping, but can be used with anything that communicates through STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR.
http://www.sysinternals.com/portmon.htm Win95, freeware, designed for debugging port communications but can be used for protocol analysis
strace -x -ff -e trace=file,read,write,close -o linux, part of the main distribution. To be effective, it really needs some kind of perl wrapper. But it's very general purpose.





[]Rudy Moore