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- Seer will be a replacement for the Peek program. It is currently
- under construction at Carnegie Mellon, by Aaron Wohl.
- Seer can decode the fields of each kind of packet and print them in human
- readable form. We have all seen Macintosh vaporware programs that have the
- windows and menus and don't really do anything. In it's present form Seer
- is the otherway around; it can collect packets and decode some of
- them, but doesn't have a user interface to speak of.
-
- Seer isn't particurly useful in its current state. It is being
- released at this time so that our friends in the AppleTalk community
- might know the status of this project. We have received pleas for
- information as to how to initilized the SCC in promiscuous mode and
- receive packets. Examine the code for Seer and read the file sr_doc
- for information about promiscuous listening.
-
- All parts of Seer are public domain so that others might feel free to
- build on the provided routines. Please note however that the interface
- to the queue will definitely change to support stepping forward and backward
- between packets. Actually, the entire program is under active development
- and change. The sources are publicly readable on the arpanet as:
- host: gnome.cs.cmu.edu
- directory: /usr/avw/seer/dist/v1.shar
- and will be updated from time to time.
-
- Aaron Wohl
- Carnegie -Mellon University
- College of Fine Arts
- Center for Art and Technology
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
- (412)-268-3454
-
- Since I freqently work at home, feel free to contact me there, 8am-8pm:
- 442 Franklin Ave/Rear
- Pittsburgh PA, 15221
- (412)-731-6159
-
- File names:
- xt_* - the c sources to 'Seer Test Aplication'.
-
- The other files build the seer device driver.
-