Channel in monitor mode

Harnish Bradley J Civ AFRL/IFGB Bradley.Harnish
Mon Jan 24 02:45:28 PST 2005


Hello, 
I am trying to use monitor mode to gather statistics 
based on the channel or frequency on which each wlan 
frame was received. Unfortunately for me, the 
linux_wlan_ng_cap_hdr only gives the local->channel 
cnfOwnChannel set by iwconfig command), the 
linux_wlan_ng_prism_hdr sets its hdr->channel to 0, 
and the hf384x_rx_frame struct has no channel info. 

The Prism2 docs I've seen show static channel info 
(current channel, allowed channel lists, etc.) The 
only dynamic channel info I saw in the Prism docs 
was the channel scan bit map (ChannelInfoRequest/Result). 

It seems like the information about the channel on which 
a frame was received would be in the card somewhere 
either directly or indirectly. The question is, can it be 
acquired and then correlated with the receive frame event? 

Does anyone know if it is possible (and how) to get that 
for each frame? 

Thanks, 
Brad 





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