Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] TEMS R520 connection interface

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:00:46 -0700
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 06:03:09PM +0300, Muhammad Samy wrote:
> any updates
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Muhammad Samy
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:23 AM

That's a little under 12 hours; expecting a response in 12 hours,
especially for a question asking about hardware or software that I
suspect most of us have never heard of, is probably an error. :-)

>         Could you please indicate whether ethereal can sniff all the
> GPRS activities done using the TEMS R520 Mobile connection as the
> interface for this connection doesn't appear in the available interfaces
> for the ethereal S/W.

The only interfaces that will show up with current versions of
libpcap/WinPcap are interfaces that look like network interfaces; unless
the device (or whatever you're using) plugs into whatever OS you're
using as a regular network interface, Ethereal (and tcpdump/WinDump,
etc.) won't see it.

If it *does* plug into whatever OS you're using, it will probably only
show you PPP traffic, not GPRS "air interface" (or whatever the right
term is; I'm not a mobile phone expert) traffic.

If Ericsson (I'm assuming the stuff you're using is from Ericssson)
provide a software development kit for whatever type of equipment you're
using, and that kit allows you to write code to open up the device and
capture traffic, it *might* be possible to add support to it in libpcap
or WinPcap.