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Re: good wlan: sniffer that does not need a windows machine ?

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On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 07:46:04PM +0100, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> Monitoring in general works in almost all linux drivers (the Alfa
> AWUS036H is perhaps the best for this purpose) - however, there is no
> known way to monitor 802.11n packets on Linux (due to problems with
> the mac80211 stack not passing 802.11n frames to monitor interfaces?).

Known to whom? ;-) mac80211 passes 802.11n packet just fine to monitor
interfaces and as an example, I'm using ath9k as a wireless sniffer for
IEEE 802.11g/a/n. The radiotap headers may not show all parameters at
this point, but there is ongoing work to extend that 

> Currently, the only way to sniff 802.11n packets is the AirPcap NX on
> Windows.

Yeah, right..

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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