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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Manjunath Prabhu <manjunath.mp@gmail.com>
Cc: BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Bluetooth capture and client manager
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:47:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099392428.10948.28.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2de46576041101220615adedb4@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Manjunath,

> I am working on a BT project and am trying to capture bluetooth packets. 
> 
> I have done a simple test, where in using hcidump i have captured the
> packets and saved it to a file. I have then fed the file to
> ethereal.........which gives limited and insufficient information like
> data bytes, frame number etc. I am not able to retrieve any header
> contents

I never finished the Bluetooth decoder for Ethereal and so it is only
capable of reading the hcidump format.

> Is it possible to capture and analyse BT packets from the air
> interface, calculate the data transfer rate, etc...something similar
> to a 802.11 client manager???? Please do send the links ..if some work
> has already taken place on this front.

For getting air packets you need a protocol analyzer. For a client
manager you can use the link quality, RSSI etc. and you should look the
HCI part of the specification, because everything you can do is in
there.

Regards

Marcel




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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-02  6:06 [Bluez-users] Bluetooth capture and client manager Manjunath Prabhu
2004-11-02 10:47 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]

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