From: "Jan van Wijk" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account jvw@hautspot.com HELO merlin) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTPA id 1594938 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:07:47 -0500 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:07:40 +0100 Reply-To: "Jan van Wijk" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Logging network activity from VPC Message-ID: Hello Hakan, On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:04:49 -0500 (EST), Hakan wrote: >I have a Win application I run in VPC under Win 2000. This application >communicates with my TiVo DVR and I'd like to see if I can write a >small application under OS/2 to transfer files back and forth between >the computer and the TiVo. OK, sounds like a nice reverse-engineering project :-) >Can I use the OS/2 program -- is it tracert? -- to log network activity >that originates from an application running in VPC? No, tracert is 'trace route' and is a little tool to see how TCP/IP packages are being sent to a specific URL. It displayes all the intermediate nodes visited while underway ... To really trace TCP/IP traffic contents you need a sniffer program that can do that. There are quite a few for Windows and Linux, but I am not sure there is something for OS/2. These programs have device-drivers that hook to the network card and can filter out and interpret TCP/IP (or other protocols) packets from there. There are also dedicated LAN-sniffer machines that can be attached to a router or switch that can monitor or trace the traffic on a whole LAN ... Regards, JvW ========================================================================= DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee - info@dfsee.com