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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
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Subject: Re: wireless monitoring of APs???
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:56:44PM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote:
> What tools are there in BSD-land that are usefull for monitoring activity on 
> an AP? i.e. like dstumbler but from the LAN side? well, alright, not like 
> dstumbler as it has 1) and installed piece of hardware to use and 2) direct 
> access to the device, where as an AP attatched to a boxen does not...

Depends on what you want to monitor.

I'm sidetracked at the moment with some TCP work, so I haven't finished
trafd+radiotap, but I am sure you'll find many useful SNMP MIBs out there for
talking to an AP.

BMS