Could you explain what do you mean by outbound beacons ? I have been able to capture beacons using libpcap. Am I missing on something ?
Abhinav On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Yifan Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am writing my own program, which will be running on a 802.11 AP, to > capture all the outgoing beacons on the AP. But I just noticed I cannot do > it with the current libpcap: the program couldn't capture any outbound > beacons. I've also tried Wireshark which gave the same result. > > My questions are: > 1. Can anyone shed some lights on the causes of what I saw? > 2. Is there any user space method that I can capture the outbound beacons > of a 802.11 AP on that specific AP (rather than capturing on other PCs)? It > is better for me if I can do this without hacking into the wireless driver. > > Thanks, folks. > > -ivan > - > This is the tcpdump-workers list. > Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe. > - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
