linux-kernel - Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas

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Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:23:24 +0100
From:	Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@...il.com>
To:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>, david@...g.hm,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Witold Sowa <witold.sowa@...il.com>,
	Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@...il.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lsb-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas

> Also, like I said, this should be a analysis, and not
> wardriving/hacking tool.
> And with GUI.

Please define "analysis". What exactly should be analyzed?

Kismet can do:
* construct list of all beaconing APs and IBSS devices
* associate SSID to beacons because of assoc/auth req/resp
* construct a list of all stations around
* show used protection schema
* get simple packet statistics
* get simple signal level figures
* ...

But "analysis" can obviously be much more.

Some of the analysis should also be done on driver level, e.g. 
extend the nl80211-site-survey into mac80211 and add noise 
reporting to some drivers (I have something preliminary for 
ath5k). But also extend it to give channel occupation 
statistics.

And for a GUI, you could run kismet-server in the background and 
write a GUI (e.g. in Qt, so that it runs on X11/Mac/Win).

If the required analysis isn't easily put into kismet, you can of 
course write a new application if you please so :-)  I for 
example wrote a simple Qt application that has 25% of kismet's 
capability, but with a GUI. Unfortunately still Qt3.

-- 
http://www.holgerschurig.de
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