Hi, I am working on improving the monitor mode frame injection/reception functionality in mac80211. For this purpose I have written a small test tool that can transmit and receive frames in monitor mode. It can be used to measure throughput and packet loss for Tx and Rx, in AP or STA mode, with or without encryption. The source code is on GitHub, https://github.com/anyfi/wperf. There are also statically-linked binaries for mips and x86: $ wget https://github.com/anyfi/wperf/releases/download/v1.0.0/wperf-1.0.0-i386 $ wget https://github.com/anyfi/wperf/releases/download/v1.0.0/wperf-1.0.0-mips $ wget https://github.com/anyfi/wperf/releases/download/v1.0.0/wperf-1.0.0-x86_64 $ file wperf-1.0.0-* wperf-1.0.0-i386: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 3.7.3, not stripped wperf-1.0.0-mips: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS-I version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped wperf-1.0.0-x86_64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=b5ac1e98b0ce1c0665f280762ef6ab05ebfff153, not stripped $ md5sum wperf-1.0.0-* b96b5d81518bad8094f37195e7fcae85 wperf-1.0.0-i386 300a5ad881039550b03e682d5eae981d wperf-1.0.0-mips a0586dc3ed5c6f32630ae233640c1d57 wperf-1.0.0-x86_64 To transmit frames in monitor mode from an AP: 1) Set up an wireless network in AP mode with mac80211 and hostapd, and create a monitor interface on the phy 2) Connect a STA to the wireless network 3) Run a wperf UDP server on the STA wperf -s 4) Run a wperf client in monitor mode on the AP wperf -c <STA IP> --monitor=<monitor ifname> --bssid=<AP BSSID> --dhost=<STA MAC> Johan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
