Avinash,
Ya m talking about the WLAN.
can you just throw some more light on cfg802.11 handlers.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Avinash Patil <avinashapatil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Gunjan,
Are you talking about WLAN beacon frames? If so, you can you cfg80211
handlers to register management frames and once frame is received
parse frame type/subtype to check if its beacon.
I dont think beacon frames are delievered to netdev.
Thanks,
Avinash
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Gunjan Mehta <gunjanmehta08@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Then how do i capture the beacon frames?
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> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Jeff Haran <Jeff.Haran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> From: kernelnewbies-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gunjan Mehta
>> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 9:21 AM
>> To: kernelnewbies; netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Identify Beacon Frame
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>> Hi All,
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>> I am new to kernel development. I am writing a kernel module that captures
>> packet at the netfilter pre - routing hook.
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>> I only want to capture the BEACON FRAME.
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>> I have few queries:
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>> 1>When the beacon frame comes to receiving machine do the sk_buff gets
>> allocated?
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>> 2> How can i identify the beacon frame at the pre routing hook?
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>> 3> Beacon frame consist of a string for authentication of client with the
>> server, can i use sk_buff pointers to get access to that string, if sk_buff
>> is allocated?
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>> Regards
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>> Gunjan
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>> These beacon frames do not appear to be IP packets. If that is true, I
>> don’t think you are going to see them in any netfilter hooks.
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>> Jeff Haran
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