Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:56:44 +1100 From: paul van den bergen <pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: wireless monitoring of APs??? Message-ID: <200312151656.44591.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au>
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All this talk of tcpdump, etc. has made me remember a question I thought of a while back and never got a decent answer on... 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... but surely you see my point? it would be desirable to be able to display on a BSD box the same sort of information as dstumbler or other network managent tools for APs as it is for on-board wifi cards... I suspect the problem is that there is no information coming from the AP on the ethernet activity it sees on the wireless side being relayed to the wired side... and hence a agent would have to be running on the AP itself to allow such functionality... -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made." Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824
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