1 How to use packet injection with mac80211
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4 mac80211 now allows arbitrary packets to be injected down any Monitor Mode
5 interface from userland. The packet you inject needs to be composed in the
12 The radiotap format is discussed in
13 ./Documentation/networking/radiotap-headers.txt.
15 Despite 13 radiotap argument types are currently defined, most only make sense
16 to appear on received packets. Currently three kinds of argument are used by
17 the injection code, although it knows to skip any other arguments that are
18 present (facilitating replay of captured radiotap headers directly):
20 - IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_RATE - u8 arg in 500kbps units (0x02 --> 1Mbps)
22 - IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_ANTENNA - u8 arg, 0x00 = ant1, 0x01 = ant2
24 - IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DBM_TX_POWER - u8 arg, dBm
26 Here is an example valid radiotap header defining these three parameters
28 0x00, 0x00, // <-- radiotap version
29 0x0b, 0x00, // <- radiotap header length
30 0x04, 0x0c, 0x00, 0x00, // <-- bitmap
35 The ieee80211 header follows immediately afterwards, looking for example like
38 0x08, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00,
39 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF,
40 0x13, 0x22, 0x33, 0x44, 0x55, 0x66,
41 0x13, 0x22, 0x33, 0x44, 0x55, 0x66,
44 Then lastly there is the payload.
46 After composing the packet contents, it is sent by send()-ing it to a logical
47 mac80211 interface that is in Monitor mode. Libpcap can also be used,
48 (which is easier than doing the work to bind the socket to the right
49 interface), along the following lines:
51 ppcap = pcap_open_live(szInterfaceName, 800, 1, 20, szErrbuf);
53 r = pcap_inject(ppcap, u8aSendBuffer, nLength);
55 You can also find sources for a complete inject test applet here:
57 http://penumbra.warmcat.com/_twk/tiki-index.php?page=packetspammer
59 Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>