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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:57:21 +0200
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Subject: good wlan: sniffer that does not need a windows machine ?
From: Neshama Parhoti <pneshama@gmail.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Hi all,

When developing mac80211 stuff, one sometimes need a WLAN packet
sniffer that have more details than a simple packet information (e.g.
info about packet rates, power lvl, etc..) which might need a
dedicated hw sniffer + software (idealy it should support at least 11g
and 11n, but if a hw supporting all four 11a,b,g,n exists in a
reasonable price then why not).

As far as I can see, most of these works only on windows (e.g. the one
that is published on the wireshark site:
http://www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap.html) they might be good, but
that's not my taste.

So - do you know any good solution that runs on linux ? preferably
with open source drivers..

Thanks!
Ohad.