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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to snoop traffic
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:20:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1262053200.16627.101.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091228174408.30cc5065@redhat.com>

Hi Pete,

> > > What is the preferred method to snoop the Bluetooth traffic?
> 
> > just use hcidump -X -V. It will trace and decode the Bluetooth HCI
> > traffic for you.
> 
> Thanks a lot. As it turned out, my distribution (Fedora) packaged
> it into a nondefault package (bluez-hcidump), so I missed it, sorry.
> I thought we might've moved to a libpcap-based capture while I wasn't
> looking, but fortunately not.

actually PCAP is not possible since we can't store packet direction in
PCAP format and that is needed for HCI traffic.

Regards

Marcel



      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-29  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-28 23:28 How to snoop traffic Pete Zaitcev
2009-12-28 23:33 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-12-29  0:44   ` Pete Zaitcev
2009-12-29  2:20     ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]

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