[Make-wifi-fast] wavedroplet

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 14:37:27 EDT 2020


that's WONDERFUL! thx!

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:33 AM Simon Barber <simon at superduper.net> wrote:
>
> 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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