wireless monitoring of APs???

[paul van den bergen]

All this talk of tcpdump, etc. has made me remember a question I thought of a 
while back and never got a decent answer on...

What tools are there in BSD-land that are usefull for monitoring activity on 
an AP? i.e. like dstumbler but from the LAN side? well, alright, not like 
dstumbler as it has 1) and installed piece of hardware to use and 2) direct 
access to the device, where as an AP attatched to a boxen does not...

but surely you see my point? it would be desirable to be able to display on a 
BSD box the same sort of information as dstumbler or other network managent 
tools for APs as it is for on-board wifi cards...  

I suspect the problem is that there is no information coming from the AP on 
the ethernet activity it sees on the wireless side being relayed to the wired 
side...  and hence a agent would have to be running on the AP itself to allow 
such functionality...

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Dr Paul van den Bergen
Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
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