802.15.4 Packet Capturing with Wireshark

Overview

This µracoli contribution describes, how the traffic on a IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor network can monitored with wireshark.

With the µracoli sniffer firmware, a transceiver board with a serial or a USB interface can be easily made to a sniffer frontend. The Python script ieee802154.py bridges the serial port over a pipe to wireshark.

Here is a overview of the package contents of uracoli-sniffer-<version>.zip:

    test/uracoli-sniffer-tst/
    |-- LICENSE
    |-- README.html
    |-- doc
    |   |-- index.html ............ documentation
    |   `-- ...
    |-- firmware .................. sniffer firmware binaries
    |   |-- sniffer_any2400st.hex
    |   |-- sniffer_psk212.hex
    |   `-- ...
    `-- script
        |-- ieee802154.py ......... Python interface script
        `-- ...
 

The following sections explain the setup and usage of the sniffer under Linux and Windows OS.


This documentation for µracoli was generated on Wed Feb 2 2011 by  doxygen 1.7.1