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NAME

       irdadump - monitors the IrDA traffic on one or more links.

SYNOPSIS

       irdadump  [ -b ] [ -c n ] [ -d ] [ -x ] [ -s n ] [ -t ] [ -l ] [ -v ] [
       -i device ]

OPTIONS

       -b dump bytes in columns

       -c n set snapcols for byte printing with -b option

       -d prints the time difference between  the  current  and  the  previous
       frame

       -x dump frame (bytes and ascii)

       -s n set snaplen for -b and -x option

       -t force TTP decoding of unknown connections

       -l set line buffering on output file

       -v verbose

       -i device interface

DESCRIPTION

       irdadump  is  a  tool  for  monitoring  the IrDA traffic on one or more
       links. Just write "make" to compile  the  program.  When  you  run  the
       program, you should be able to see the IrDA traffic (if any).

       One  advantage  of  implementing  IrDA device drivers as network device
       drivers is that you should be able to attach sniffers to the device (or
       actually  the  packet  type).  That way, it is possible to use a really
       handy utility called irdadump (instead  of  tcpdump).  This  will  make
       debugging  MUCH  easier.  Linux-2.2 implements the BPF (Berkeley Packet
       Filter), so its possible to filter out exactly the frames you  want  to
       see.   You  may  use hostname to separate different machines names.  Or
       grep to filter the output, too.

       irdadump must be run as root or installed setuid root, as  it  requires
       root privileges.

EXAMPLES

       The output should look something like this:

       / # ./irdadump
       20:11:45.412199 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=0
       20:11:45.492137 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=1
       20:11:45.572137 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=2
       20:11:45.652208 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=3
       20:11:45.732137 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=4
       20:11:45.812137 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=5
       20:11:45.892175 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=255 Linux
       20:11:45.902362 xid:rsp 0xf7be8388 < 0x0015c23b S=6 s=5 ACTiSYS IR100M
       20:11:48.412197 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=0
       20:11:48.492656 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=1
       20:11:48.572177 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=2
       20:11:48.652169 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=3
       20:11:48.732177 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=4
       20:11:48.812153 xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=5
       20:11:48.822371 xid:rsp 0xf7be8388 < 0x0015c23b S=6 s=4 ACTiSYS IR100M

       15 packets received by filter
       Turning on the "-d" option will make irdadump print the time difference
       between the current and the previous frame:

       / # ./irdadump -d
       20:11:18.412475 (0982.06 ms) xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=0
       20:11:18.492345 (0079.87 ms) xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=1
       20:11:18.572376 (0080.03 ms) xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=2
       20:11:18.652979 (0080.60 ms) xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=3
       20:11:18.732354 (0079.38 ms) xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=4
       20:11:18.755093 (0022.74 ms) xid:rsp 0xf7be8388 < 0x0015c23b S=6 s=3 ACTiSYS IR100M
       20:11:18.812350 (0057.26 ms) xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=5
       20:11:18.892518 (0080.17 ms) xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=255 Linux
       20:11:21.412486 (2519.97 ms) xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=0
       20:11:21.492395 (0079.91 ms) xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=1
       20:11:21.572368 (0079.97 ms) xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=2
       20:11:21.652405 (0080.04 ms) xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=3
       20:11:21.732458 (0080.05 ms) xid:cmd 0x0015c23b > 0xffffffff S=6 s=4
       irdadump must be run as root or installed setuid root, as  it  requires
       root privileges.

       irdadump  -d  -x  -s  256  will  check the contents of the frames. This
       should tell us if the frames have malformed content,  or  if  the  irda
       stack is doing something wrong.

DIAGNOSTICS

       N.N.

BUGS

       N.N.

SEE ALSO

       irattach(8),   irdaping(8),   irdadump(8),   findchip(8),  irpsion5(8),
       modprobe(8)

       Linux/IrDA Project http://irda.sourceforge.net -*-  Linux/IrDA-Tutorial
       http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/IrDA/index.html      -*-
       Infrared-HOWTO http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html

AUTHOR

       This manual page is written by Werner Heuser <wehe@tuxmobil.org>. It is
       based  on the READMEs from irda-utils by the Linux/IrDA Project and the
       Linux/IrDA-Tutorial.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2001 Werner Heuser

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify  this  document
       under  the  terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version
       1.1 or any later version published by  the  Free  Software  Foundation;
       with  no  Invariant  Sections,  no  Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover
       Texts.

                                 03 July 2006