perlsyntax has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i try to make a wireless tool but for some reason i read on google everyone have the same prob like i have install Net:Pcap is there a better tool that does that same thing in perl?Or would it be a better idea to make my own tool like Net::Pcap? My prob is i try to make a wireless tool so it can sniff any type mac adderess and like line up all the on the same network so it would map it out.Any ideas?

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Re: Perl and wireless Question
by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 10, 2008 at 15:36 UTC
    There are some "pass" reports for Net::Pcap, so it seems not entirely broken.

    So instead of searching for alternatives you could try a bit harder to install it. If you need help, ask for it, and post your error messages here.

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Re: Perl and wireless Question
by NetWallah (Canon) on Mar 10, 2008 at 17:36 UTC
    Would you consider avoiding wheel-re-invention ?

    I think a combination of the Kismet 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and Wireshark should be more than adequate for collecting mac addresses.

    You could also write code to directly read the file captured by Kismet (possibly converted to text by something like tcpdump or Wireshark), to build network diagrams.

         "As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two... " - Sir Norman Wisdom

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Re: Perl and wireless Question
by perlsyntax (Pilgrim) on Mar 10, 2008 at 15:43 UTC
    Here my link of my error message. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/netpcap-installing-prob-626883/
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      That is not a link. This is a link.

      I do not see any errors there, just warnings emitted by the C compiler. The pcap source code is not so clean, but I can see it compiled okay.

      You cut off the pasted log in the middle of the testing step. It should end in the following or similar. 

      All tests successful.
Files=30, Tests=549, 11 wallclock secs ( 0.76 usr  0.05 sys +  8.59 cu
+sr  0.72 csys = 10.12 CPU)
Result: PASS
  SAPER/Net-Pcap-0.16.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make test -- OK

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      Afterwards you run make install to install the module.

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