Re: Constant RSSI Measurement per Packet per Every Neighbour in an Ad Hoc Network

Siva Sivavakeesar wrote:
> Hello there,
>  
> I am using the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection mini PCI
> adapters for my Mobile Ad Hoc Network testbed, and it supports the
> Wireless Tools v28 and WE v19. My requirment is that every mobile node
> needs to constantly monitor the RSSI and maintain a table in which it
> specifies at what power level each packet/frame is received from its
> one-hop neighbours. Once obtained, this low-level information should
> be made available at the network-layer level. Can you please shed some
> light as to how I can perform this.
>  
> Thanks in advance.
>  
> Best Regards,
>  
> Siva
IIRC you need to enable the rtap interface on the driver side, and then
read the packets from that interface and interpret the information on
the radiotap header.

Regards,
--
Pedro Ramalhais

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