Re: [tcpdump-workers] Variable length LLC headers

2005-07-26 Thread Guy Harris
Mike Kershaw wrote: I've been developing a database of cards based on the iwpriv fingerprints. So far, the method seems to be sound. I hope to use that to map sources automatically inside Kismet to the kismet 'specialty' sources. As drivers evolve, I should only need one standard source under

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Variable length LLC headers

2005-07-26 Thread Mike Kershaw
> While you're doing that, could you beat up on the driver teams to get > them to adopt the same APIs for turning on monitor mode and setting the > channel? There's a whole bunch of different commands (and presumably > calls) with different drivers: Oh, I know. :) I'm working on it. > It app

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Variable length LLC headers

2005-07-26 Thread Guy Harris
Mike Kershaw wrote: Sorry, I'm only messing with the linux stuff at the moment, While you're doing that, could you beat up on the driver teams to get them to adopt the same APIs for turning on monitor mode and setting the channel? There's a whole bunch of different commands (and presumably

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Variable length LLC headers

2005-07-26 Thread Mike Kershaw
> >Well, yes. :) I still have to get my patches accepted to the ieee80211 > >branch, merged into the kernel, and then all the driver patches done and > >accepted. It's a step in the right direction tho. > > If you're working on the FreeBSD Aironet driver, you might want to look > at the version

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Variable length LLC headers

2005-07-26 Thread Guy Harris
Mike Kershaw wrote: Well, yes. :) I still have to get my patches accepted to the ieee80211 branch, merged into the kernel, and then all the driver patches done and accepted. It's a step in the right direction tho. If you're working on the FreeBSD Aironet driver, you might want to look at th

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Variable length LLC headers

2005-07-26 Thread Mike Kershaw
> >I've been working on bringing the radiotap headers to Linux so that > >we'll finally have a kernel-level multi-platform consistent way to get > >signal data on wireless cards. > > Well, it'd also need to be brought to the Aironet driver on the BSDs as > well, to complete that process. (It's l

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Variable length LLC headers

2005-07-26 Thread Guy Harris
Mike Kershaw wrote: I've been working on bringing the radiotap headers to Linux so that we'll finally have a kernel-level multi-platform consistent way to get signal data on wireless cards. Well, it'd also need to be brought to the Aironet driver on the BSDs as well, to complete that process.

[tcpdump-workers] Variable length LLC headers

2005-07-26 Thread Mike Kershaw
I've been working on bringing the radiotap headers to Linux so that we'll finally have a kernel-level multi-platform consistent way to get signal data on wireless cards. Part of the argument which has arisen is about the 64byte static container that the radiotap headers define to put the variabl