[OLPC Networking] data collection and analysis

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Thu Feb 14 01:40:21 EST 2008


Javier Cardona wrote:
> Hi Sameer,
>
> On 2/13/08, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>   
>> I am teaching a course this semester on IT/network audit and would like
>> to demonstrate the underpinnings of mesh networking. Is there any
>> specific tool or methodology for collecting traffic data that I can pull
>> into Ethereal for analysis? ping works, but I couldn't find tcpdump on
>> the XO. I was planning to dump the output to a SD card and analyze it
>> offline.
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestions would be great.
>>     
>
> Please see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless#Capturing_wireless_traffic_on_the_xo
>
> Cheers,
>
> Javier
>
>   
Thanks! Will definitely try it out.

Sameer

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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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