hostapd(8) - Proactive Wireless Monitoring
  • Using basic IAPP status messages of hostapd(8)
  • Extended capabilities through the powerful "Event Rules"
    • Define event rules using a well-desinged configuration language
    • Generic IEEE 802.11 frame matching
    • Choose different generic actions for matched frames
    • Proactive IEEE 802.11 packet generation
    • Fast red-black trees of link layer addresses
  • Different supported actions for matched frames
    • frame - send arbitrary IEEE 802.11 frames
    • iapp radiotap - send received 802.11 payload encapsulated in IAPP
    • log - write frame details to local syslog
    • node - alter the in-kernel hostap node table
    • resend - re-inject a received IEEE 802.11 frame
"Proactive Wireless Networks With OpenBSD", BSDCan 2006, Ottawa, Canada, 2006-05-13
Reyk Floeter (reyk@vantronix.net)
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