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Subject: Re: How to snoop traffic
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:20:00 -0800
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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