Abillity to sniff serial line with wireshark?

[J. Büsch]

Hey folks,

I have a question concerning the abillity to sniff the serial line with
wireshark.
We have a special hardware radio that is connected via serial link.
Airframes are encapsulated in serial packets.

Is there any chance to let wireshark open a specific serial port and
sniff whatever comes on that link?

Thanks for your help!
Best regards,
J.Büsch
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[Steve Karg]

Hello J.Büsch,

Post by J. Büsch
Is there any chance to let wireshark open a specific serial port and
sniff whatever comes on that link?

You can use a named pipe for sniffing serial, but you need to
packetize the serial data first.

Here is the Wiki page about pipes:
http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Pipes

I wrote a command line utility in C to packetize BACnet MS/TP serial
data, save in pcap format to a file, and forward to a named pipe on
Linux or Windows:
https://bacnet.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bacnet/trunk/bacnet-stack/demo/mstpcap/main.c

Best Regards,

Steve