hostapd n00b wants to capture all traffic sent / received by BSS - use hostapd?

[hiro]

Is there anything preventing you to use tcpdump or airodump on a
second virtual interface in monitor mode? look into airodump-ng
project's man pages perhaps, cause they have nice tools to create such
interfaces in monitor mode.

On 10/9/15, Kennedy, Smith (Wireless Architect) <smith.kennedy at hp.com> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I am seeking a way to have an AP that can trace all 802.11 traffic sent &
> received by its adapters.  Having an adjacent system running in monitor mode
> isn't good enough - I want to track the traffic actually sent / received by
> the AP as reported by the AP's radio adapters themselves.  And I was
> wondering if such a thing could be done using hostapd (to provide the AP
> function if not the monitoring function) perhaps running BSD or Linux.  I
> don't know whether hostapd could be providing the 802.11 traffic or if
> rather I would need to be getting that using something like Wireshark etc.?
> Reading the Wireshark wiki for capturing Wi-Fi traffic, it seems that
> non-monitor mode won't deliver the 802.11 headers on Linux, but some of the
> BSDs provide 802.11 headers and all the management frames etc.  Or maybe
> this will require getting traces directly from the drivers...?
>
> Any help or other thoughts / pointers would be very welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Smith
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