Signal strength is not stored in an IP packet. It is more of a radio-level statistic that would need to be gathered from the wireless device somehow.
Christian > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sunny sunny > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:18 PM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: [Tutor] Getting singal strength of the received packet > > Hi, > > I am sending and receiving for a simple server application > over wirless link. > Can I get the signal strength of the received packet in Python? > > One way would be to get the value of the RSSI from /proc/net/wireless. > However I would like to get the signal strength (in terms of RSSI or > dBm) of the specific packet. Is it possible to do this in Python. > > I am using hostAP driver, and know that using C, I can get > the packet RSSI. > > Thanks > Santosh. > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
