Re: Utilities for Determining Signal Strength

> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:19:37 -0700
> From: Justin Lundy <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> 
> Also, I recommend bsd-airtools[1]. Although it provides more functionality
> than you need, it will allow you to monitor WiFi signal strength in a
> variety of ways. Taken from its documentation:
> 
> bsd-airtools is a package that provides a complete toolset for wireless 
> 802.11b auditing. Namely, it currently contains a bsd-based wep cracking 
> application, called dweputils (as well as kernel patches for NetBSD, 
> OpenBSD, and FreeBSD). It also contains a curses based ap detection 
> application similar to netstumbler (dstumbler) that can be used to detect 
> wireless access points and connected nodes, view signal to noise graphs, 
> and interactively scroll through scanned ap's and view statistics for each. 
> It also includes a couple other tools to provide a complete toolset for 
> making use of all 14 of the prism2 debug modes as well as do basic analysis 
> of the hardware-based link-layer protocols provided by prism2's monitor 
> debug mode."
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] http://www.dachb0den.com/projects/bsd-airtools.html
> 

For a light weight solution, there is a gkrellmwireless port that will
add signal strength to the gkrellm system monitor.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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