From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Cc: Neshama Parhoti <pneshama@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: good wlan: sniffer that does not need a windows machine ?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:11:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100214191126.GA13637@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69e28c911002141046r70d8bcf2g6a8db7afbbef837@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 07:46:04PM +0100, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> Monitoring in general works in almost all linux drivers (the Alfa
> AWUS036H is perhaps the best for this purpose) - however, there is no
> known way to monitor 802.11n packets on Linux (due to problems with
> the mac80211 stack not passing 802.11n frames to monitor interfaces?).
Known to whom? ;-) mac80211 passes 802.11n packet just fine to monitor
interfaces and as an example, I'm using ath9k as a wireless sniffer for
IEEE 802.11g/a/n. The radiotap headers may not show all parameters at
this point, but there is ongoing work to extend that
> Currently, the only way to sniff 802.11n packets is the AirPcap NX on
> Windows.
Yeah, right..
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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-14 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-14 17:57 good wlan: sniffer that does not need a windows machine ? Neshama Parhoti
2010-02-14 18:46 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-02-14 19:10 ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-14 19:11 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2010-02-14 19:50 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-02-15 8:37 ` Neshama Parhoti
2010-02-15 11:31 ` Gábor Stefanik
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