Capturing SS info from Probe Request.

Jouni Malinen jkmaline
Mon Jul 5 17:22:48 PDT 2004


On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:04:49AM +0530, Anand S. Katti wrote:

> 	In an Experiment, I want to make the HostAP collect the Signal
> Strength[SS] information for the Probe Request received by the firmware. I
> understand that HostAP doesn't receive the Probe Request as discussed
> earlier. I would greatly appreciate if anybody has the idea on how to make
> HostAP get the SS related info for Probe Request ?

You can get the signal strength for these frames in monitor mode, but if
you want to get this information in Master mode, firmware change is
likely required..

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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