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packetspammer

packetspammer is a small C app that is used to demonstrate mac80211 Monitor Mode packet injection

Monitor Interface injection is the new method we are trying to get into the mac80211 stack, which uses a flexible radiotap header to allow injection of all kinds of packets at various rates, transmit strengths and antenna selections.

Packetspammer both listens for packets with a 13:22:33:44:xx:xx MAC address in them and generates them at the same time. If you run packetspammer on two mac80211-based devices that are near each other, they will report the other station's packets like this:


RX: Rate: 54.0Mbps, Freq: 2.417GHz, Ant: 0, Flags: 10
0000: 50 61 63 6B 65 74 73 70 61 6D 6D 65 72 20 2D 2D Packetspammer --
0010: 62 72 6F 61 64 63 61 73 74 20 70 61 63 6B 65 74 broadcast packet
0020: 23 34 37 39 31 36 20 2D 2D 20 3A 2D 44 20 2D 2D #47916 :-D
0030: 75 6C 74 72 61 63 61 74 2E 68 6F 6D 65 2E 77 61 ultracat.home.wa
0040: 72 6D 63 61 74 2E 63 6F 6D rmcat.com


The example technical assets in the packetspammer sources for use in other GPL'd apps

  • Receive radiotap parsing
  • Building a transmit packet with radiotap
  • Opening, injecting and monitoring with libpcap

Current version

Tarball: packetspammer-0.6.tar.gz
F7 Binary RPM: packetspammer-0.6-6.i686.rpm
F7 SRPM: packetspammer-0.6-6.src.rpm

Development

Git Repository

Build hints

Just have libpcap-devel or equivalent installed and do a make.

Usage


Packetspammer (c)2007 Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> GPL2
(c)2006-2007 Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> Licensed under GPL2

Usage: packetspammer options <interface>

Options
-d/--delay <delay> Delay between packets

-f/--fcs Mark as having FCS (CRC) already
(pkt ends with 4 x sacrificial - chars)

echo -n mon0 > /sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/add_iface
iwconfig mon0 mode monitor
ifconfig mon0 up
packetspammer mon0 Spam down mon0 with
radiotap header first


Thanks

Matteo Croce for fixing getopt and help stuff, advice about build flags


Created by admin. Last Modification: Monday 16 of July, 2007 17:28:55 BST by admin.

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