Try #8: Radiotap on Monitor Mode interfaces for rx and tx
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| # | Subject and files | Size | Replies | Applied |
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| 1/7 | sync wireless-dev with radiotap header in wireless-2.6include/ | +52 | 0 replies | |
| 2/7 | mac80211: Add radiotap supportinclude/ net/ net/ | +70 | 0 replies | |
| 3/7 | mac80211: Monitor mode radiotap injection docsDocumentation/ Documentation/ | +138 | 0 replies | |
| 4/7 | mac80211: Define present bitmap extend bit maskinclude/ | +2 | 0 replies | |
| 5/7 | cfg80211: Radiotap parserinclude/ net/ net/ | +279 | 0 replies | |
| 6/7 | mac80211: Monitor mode radiotap-based packet injectionnet/ | +196 | 0 replies | |
| 7/7 | zd1211rw-mac80211: return hardware specific tx rate code for rx statusdrivers/ drivers/ drivers/ | +25 | 0 replies |
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Cover letter [PATCH 0/7] Try #8: Radiotap on Monitor Mode interfaces for rx and tx
Hi folks -
This set of patches change the Monitor Mode wireless interfaces to use radiotap both for monitoring and for packet injection. The monitoring side is done by a patch from Michael Wu. For example, tcpdump can handle the resulting radiotap packets.
For injecting packets, you issue a packet using libpcap or a SOCK_PACKET socket down an interface to the wireless device that is in Monitor Mode. The packet has a normal radiotap header prepended to the IEEE80211 header. The radiotap header is variable length depending on what the user wants to
specify: currently the transmit rate, power and antenna are interpreted, and any other entries are skipped.
The radiotap parser is broken out into its own file under cfg80211.
A usermode app packetspammer is available from here
http://penumbra.warmcat.com/_twk/tiki-index.php?page=packetspammer
which allows easy injection of these packets from the commandline. At the moment it loops issuing packets at a variety of rates which can be seen from another machine's monitor mode interface on the same channel. There are instructions for build and using it on the page above.
Currently it has been tested for both rx and tx using zd1211rw-mac80211.
The patches are based against this morning's wireless-dev.
I also added some documentation files which explains how to use the injection functionality and radiotap header notes.
I have used the radiotap include patch from Michael Wu which basically syncs wireless-dev with the one in wireless-2.6, and his latest radiotap rx patch.
Michael Wu's rx patch exposed an issue with zd1211rw-mac80211 using its hardware-dependent rx rate coding which differs from the coding used to specify tx rates. I therefore added a small broken-out patch in this set which converts the reported rx rate from zd1211rw-mac80211 to use the corresponding tx rate coding, so mac80211 can use the reported rate with its rate tables (which use the hardware-specific tx rate coding) to find the absolute bitrate and report that via radiotap.