Listening to Serial Com Ports that are In use

Question

I\'m dealing with some legacy systems that are using RS232 to communicate with peripherals. I\'m not very experienced with COM interfacing. I have some code that can open an

Answer 1

You could also use TCPcom to convert the data to Ethernet packets and monitor it with Wireshark - and also broadcast it elsewhere. You then use another instance of TCPcom to forward it to any com port you like - including a virtual com port. Now you have essentially hijacked the data via Ethernet. https://sourceforge.net/projects/combytcp/?source=directory