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On 16 June 2016 at 12:10, Majid Ashoori <majid.it@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I am using OCB mode based on ath9k driver for my wireless connections
> between different nodes. In this mode there is no BS or established
> connection to analyze the signal strength of BS. Thus, I need to know
> the signal strength of received packets in my user-space application
> to do some calculation based on that.
>
> So, here is the question: how can I get signal strength of a received
> packet in a user-space application? I reached to the point that it may
> be performed via cfg80211 or nl80211 and I check them but I am not
> sure how exactly I can get that.

Create monitor interface, read packets from it, parse radiotap header
manually or using this tiny parser:
http://git.sipsolutions.net/?p=radiotap.git

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Rafał
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