Olin Lathrop wrote:

> Stef Mientki wrote:
>> Now I think it would it much easier to debug to evaluate the protocols,
>> over a well known physical layer, like the RS232 commport.
> 
> Probably not.  SLIP introduces other issues that will make some things
> more complicated and obscure others.  Ethernet is a "well known physical
> layer", and your PC talks it natively without any fuss.  

There are a number of tools around that allow you to observe what's going
on in the various protocol layers on the PC, much more comfortably than
trying to actually see the bits on the physical layer. Start with TDIMon
and TCPView from Sysinternals. 

Gerhard

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