Wi-Fi Protocol Analyzers on Linux
So far, all we have is Wireshark and a hot-rodded version thereof called Airpcap by Cace Technologies. I'd love to see some of the vendors that we've been using for some time now (e.g. AirMagnet, Wildpackets, Tamosoft, AirDefense, Network Chemistry (now Aruba), and even Fluke Networks) come out with a made-for-Linux version of their laptop-based protocol analysis software. Why? Because I think that Microsoft is going to bite the dust with Vista. I hate Vista, though I've always been a big fan of XP/sp2. Everyone I know that has used Vista hates Vista - and complains constantly. I'm reasonably sure that Vista even has a bad case of self-loathing. With no reasonable path forward with the Windows operating system, that leaves us poor networking junkies with two equally scary choices:
MAC or Linux
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