On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Rick DeNatale wrote:

Netstumbler???? -- That's some windoze thing ain't it?

yes but it works very well and it's free ($). When I started on wifi (about 3 yrs ago) there was nothing like it on Linux. I haven't kept track of the tools on linux since then.

Not really practical, this wap is part of an infrastructure lan, I'd
need a looonng cat-5 cable to put it in a field and hook up to my
network.

you don't need to connect the wap to a network. The wifi client card can associate with it and connect to the httpd running on it. You're not going to be able to test at high throughput, but with the number of errors you're seeing, you
should be able to tell if they're still there.

I'm currently writing a ruby script which will sample the stats from
iwconfig and ifconfig so that I can see how the errors change over
time and with changes to the configuration of the WAP.

neat. Can you post it somewhere when you're done?

Joe
--
Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina
jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map
generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux!
--
TriLUG mailing list        : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
TriLUG Organizational FAQ  : http://trilug.org/faq/
TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/

Reply via email to