[Aironet] Linux, Aironet, and RFMON mode

[Javier A. <ach...@tt...>]

Doug writes:

> Benjamin Reed writes:
> | I am surprised Etherreal can handle 802.11 since the kernel support for
> | 802.11 packets seems rather unused.  I'm in the same boat as Javier:  it is
> | easy to put in, but will anyone use it?  (When I say anyone, I mean will
> | any applications support it?)
>
> There is stuff on the web that gets this stuff into Ethereal and there
> is a module type support for Ethereal to get data in without going through
> the standard IP stack.  This is for Linux, I'm looking at implementing it
> for FreeBSD but using our more generic netgraph infrastructure so then
> Ethereal could tap into that and with the right parser sniff frame relay,
> PPP, etc.
>
> I have to dig up the URL's since I don't have them handy.

Yes, please. I've been doing some tests and it's quite easy to add that
capability to the Linux driver. The worst part of it is how to interface
that with the kernel and the applications (libpcap doesn't seem quite
ready to handle it).

Javier Achirica