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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Emmanuel Mendoza <emma_kev@hotmail.com>
Cc: BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] hcidump supports real raw packets ??
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:03:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096056211.6925.39.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20040924T204722-566@post.gmane.org>

Hi Emmanuel,

> I'm using Bluez for programming a hcidump based sniffer, but I'm confused
> about the captured packets. Do packets have ACCESS_CODE + HEADER + BODY format??
> Can or would can hcidump has this support??. I probe this feature using -R
> command, but the packets has a different format.

the tool is called hcidump and can only sniff HCI and upper layers. No
radio, baseband or link manager sniffing.

> Also I'd like to know if someone knows a Bluetooth Adaptor USB's firmware that
> support the monitor mode to achieve real sniff. I know that hcidump only sniff
> the local connections. If some firmware supports the monitor mode, would hcidump
> work fine in this case?

There is nothing like a monitor mode. For this kind of sniffing you need
a protocol analyzer. Look at www.catc.com or www.fte.com.

Regards

Marcel




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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-24 19:12 [Bluez-users] hcidump supports real raw packets ?? Emmanuel Mendoza
2004-09-24 20:03 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
     [not found] <BAY17-F34grqouLS7h2000174d7@hotmail.com>
2004-09-29 22:29 ` Marcel Holtmann
     [not found] <BAY17-F20BVVI6x9isZ00009d04@hotmail.com>
2004-09-29 23:01 ` Marcel Holtmann

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