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Re: newbie - packet trace software



There is really no way to do this in software. A controller cannot be made to show you all of the traffic on the bus.

Rhoads Hollowell
USB Software Team
Apple Computer, Inc.

On Oct 11, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Robert G Palmer Jr wrote:

"There is no facility" - does that mean that it is not possible (without modifying the USB stack), or just that no one has done it? What about if I have the KernelDebugKit, does that provide the facility to do it?

Robert Palmer, Jr
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On Oct 11, 2005, at 12:03 PM, Fernando Urbina wrote:


That is correct. There is no facility to "sniff" the USB packets going in and out of the different USB busses in our computers. The USB stack is open-sourced, so you can look at the sources. USB Prober with its USB log facilities gives you some indication on what's going on. But, if you want to know what's on the bus, you need a USB Bus analyzer.

HTH,

--
Fernando Urbina
USB Technology Team
Apple Computer, Inc.

On Oct 11, 2005, at 8:58 AM, Robert G Palmer Jr wrote:



I have searched the archives and read Apple's QA1370, but haven't found any software that will allow me to capture a packet trace of the data in the USB packets going into and out of my computer. The QA lists four companies that have hardware devices and associated software (that only runs on a PC). Is is not possible to capture the data as a "sniffer", is there software out there to do it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.







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 >newbie - packet trace software (From: Robert G Palmer Jr <email@hidden>)
 >Re: newbie - packet trace software (From: Fernando Urbina <email@hidden>)
 >Re: newbie - packet trace software (From: Robert G Palmer Jr <email@hidden>)



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