Am 27.02.2015 um 23:24 schrieb Sean: > Although... you reminded me of a good story. Once upon a time I worked > for this startup company trying to develop a device that was programmed > over serial. > Some argument between owner and guy who did original dev work left us > with a device and a crappy 16 bit dos executable to reverse engineer. > Called a genius friend of mine and we actually rigged up a serial cable > with two heads and many twisted wires and electrical tape that allowed > us to "sniff" the data traversing it. > So we figured out the entire command set of the device and were able to > write a better app...
Well, if we're already sharing war stories, this is how you flash a Netgear router for your co-worker, when he bought the wrongly-gendered cable and lunch break wasn't long enough to return to the store: http://sneakpreview.stefanbaur.de/bilder/computer/routerflash.jpg For some silly reason, the standard diameter of a regular paper clip is specc'ed to be the same as the pins on a DB-9 connector. Living in a 3-D world has its advantages. -Stefan PS: 9k6, 8N1. Wouldn't connect at 14k4 or above. But was sufficient to re-flash. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
