[Make-wifi-fast] wavedroplet

Simon Barber simon at superduper.net
Tue Apr 28 14:33:17 EDT 2020


Has everyone seen the wifi visualization that I added to Wireshark? It's 
experimental and has to be turned on in the 802.11 preferences.

https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/2019/02/wireshark-where-did-the-time-go/

Simon

On April 28, 2020 11:18:15 AM Avery Pennarun <apenwarr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm afraid if you have to ask that, this program might not be for you :)
>
> There's a script called './start' in the toplevel directory. It
> requires you to have the appengine SDK installed (unfortunately). In
> retrospect, using appengine for this was a bad idea, but we all make
> mistakes in our youth. But anyway, you can download the appengine SDK
> and run a local copy for free, so you don't need actual appengine.
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:40 PM Tim Higgins <tim at timhiggins.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/28/2020 12:30 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:09 PM Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:59 AM Tim Higgins <tim at timhiggins.com> wrote:
>>
>> So how do you use it and what's the output look like?
>>
>> I downloaded it and opened the index.html file in a browser and
>> it doesn't appear to work.
>>
>> It's been years since I had to dig this deep into the wifi stack.
>> Avery's group produced a lot of cool tools while
>> gfiber was in growth mode, he's since moved onto doing cool things
>> with wireguard ( https://tailscale.com/ )and I doubt he's maintaining
>> this anymore. We had lots and lots of other very adhoc tools lying
>> around... parsing wifi caps is a !@#!!
>>
>> Sorry about that, wavedroplet never quite got to something like
>> release quality. It requires more work.
>>
>> However, it shouldn't just totally fail either :)  Perhaps there's an
>> error visible in the javascript console, or python is emitting a
>> problem somewhere (note that it's a python2 program, not python3).
>>
>> Actually, now that I think of it, I don't know why there's an
>> index.html at all. You definitely need to run the python backend and
>> connect to that, which probably renders the index.html as a template.
>>
>> Have fun,
>>
>> Avery
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. And how do I run the python backend?
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