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On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 1:16 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I often find myself wanting to figure out what equipment is to blame (and why)
> > in a wifi environment.
> >
> > I am thinking writing a tool that would parse a pcap file and look at frames
> > in enough detail to flag block-ack bugs, rate-ctrl bugs, guess at the sniffer's
> > capture ability, etc.
> >
> > Does anyone have anything already written that they would like to share, or know
> > of projects that might already do some of this?
>
> Not sure if this fits your criteria, but Sven's tool to create airtime
> charts from packet sniffing data immediately came to mind:
>
> https://github.com/cloudtrax/airtime-pie-chart

I have used that. Oy, it's a PITA. Some of kathie's code over here
(example: https://github.com/pollere/pping ) uses the slightly less
painful http://libtins.github.io/ library for parsing packets.


>
> -Toke



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