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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	"linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tool to debug wifi pkt sniffs?
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 22:15:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnwqaiso.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a44e3947-29a9-d7ba-abec-59bc1b92b201@candelatech.com>

Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I often find myself wanting to figure out what equipment is to blame (and why)
> in a wifi environment.
>
> I am thinking writing a tool that would parse a pcap file and look at frames
> in enough detail to flag block-ack bugs, rate-ctrl bugs, guess at the sniffer's
> capture ability, etc.
>
> Does anyone have anything already written that they would like to share, or know
> of projects that might already do some of this?

Not sure if this fits your criteria, but Sven's tool to create airtime
charts from packet sniffing data immediately came to mind:

https://github.com/cloudtrax/airtime-pie-chart

-Toke

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-03 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-03 20:10 Tool to debug wifi pkt sniffs? Ben Greear
2018-10-03 20:15 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2018-10-03 20:29   ` Dave Taht
2018-10-10 17:10     ` Ben Greear
2018-10-10 19:13       ` Dave Taht
2018-10-10 20:44         ` Ben Greear
2018-10-10 21:01           ` Dave Taht

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