Hi Patrick, HP, IoTech, and National make (or made) cool stand-alone GPIB debuggers that I think can be used as bus level sniffers, at least for low data volume and rates. I have extras here and can give you one for your project. Contact me offline.
/tvb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 5:19 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] device as sniffer/ promiscuous mode GPIB devices? > Hi Ulrich > > Thanks for your time and thanks for EZGPIB! > > I rebuild and resell lab instruments. My customers are doing great work > finding cures for diseases. The software to control their instruments > cost between 5-40K and is hyped up garbage that eats up their meager > budgets. I desperately, desperately want to write an open source > replacement. I am planning on offering the "base package" for free but > charging a small fee for some of the various add on instrument control > modules. I also want the application to have the on-board tools required > to sniff ports for the do-it-your-self reverse engineering of closed > source communication. > > I need to sniff the communication between the instruments and their > native software. Abdul, helpful as always, has shown me that I must use > a card that supports promiscuous mode. I have an INES PCI GPIB card on > hand and I am going to give that a try. > > Does anyone have experience with any promiscuous mode devices? Under > Linux would be even better, if possible? > > Is NI spy a full sniffer? NI have been really mistreating me of late and > I would prefer not to buy from them as they no longer provide free > technical support(now it's $300) > > Thanks-patrick _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
