---
name: "auscope"
section: "1x"
platform: "linux"
package: "nas"
version: "1.2p5-3"
release: "Debian 2.0 (Hamm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/auscope/1x"
---

# auscope(1x)

Network Audio System Protocol Filter

## NAME

auscope - Network Audio System Protocol Filter

## SYNOPSIS

**auscope** \[ option \] ...

## DESCRIPTION

*auscope* is an audio protocol filter that can be used to view the network packets being sent between an audio application and an audio server.

*auscope* is written in *Perl*, so you must have *Perl* installed on your machine in order to run *auscope*.  If your *Perl* executable is not installed as /usr/local/bin/perl, you should modify the first line of the *auscope* script to reflect the *Perl* executable's location.  Or, you can invoke *auscope* as

**perl auscope** \[ option \] ...

assuming the *Perl* executable is in your path.

To operate,  *auscope* must know the port on which it should listen for  audio clients, the name of the desktop machine on which the audio server  is running and the port to use to connect to the audio server.  Both the  output port (server) and input port (client) are automatically biased by  8000.  The output port defaults to 0 and the input port defaults to 1.

## ARGUMENTS

- **-i***\<input-port\>*

  Specify the port that *auscope* will use to take requests from clients.

- **-o***\<output-port\>*

  Determines the port that *auscope* will use to connect to the audio  server.

- **-h***\<audio server name\>*

  Determines the desktop machine name that *auscope* will use to find  the audio server.

- **-v***\<print-level\>*

  Determines the level of printing which *auscope* will provide.  The print-level can be 0 or 1.  The larger numbers provide greater output detail.

## EXAMPLES

In the following example, *mcxterm* is the name of the desktop machine  running the audio server, which is connected to the TCP/IP network host *tcphost*.  *auscope*  uses the desktop machine with the  **-h** command line option, will listen for client requests on port  8001 and connect to the audio server on port 8000.

Ports (file descriptors) on the network host are used to read and  write the audio protocol.  The audio client  *auplay* will connect to the audio server via the TCP/IP network host *tcphost*  and port *8001*:

-

  auscope -i1 -o0 -hmcxterm

-

  auplay -audio tcp/tcphost:8001 dial.snd

In the following example, the auscope verbosity is increased to 1, and the audio client  *autool*  will connect to the audio server via the network host  *tcphost*, while displaying its graphical interface on another  server *labmcx*:

-

  auscope -i1 -o0 -hmcxterm -v1

-

  autool -audio tcp/tcphost:8001 -display labmcx:0.0

## SEE ALSO

nas(1), [perl(1)](/perl/1.md)

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1994 Network Computing Devices, Inc.

## AUTHOR

Greg Renda, Network Computing Devices, Inc.