schollz/howmanypeoplearearound

Frequency hopping

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#30 opened on Jun 5, 2017

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Hey! Nice work! I have actually used your find-lf code to develop my own verison of howmanypeoplearearound.

It is ofcourse hard to track un-associated MAC addresses because of MAC address randomizaition. A solution to this could be, we can tack the known SSID list a particular device sends and then we can map the randomized MACs to be the same?

Another main issue I have faced is frquency hopping. I don't think tshark hops frequncies to find the devices in all the channels. I think airodump-ng does this. I'm trying to implement that.

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Study how airodump ng switches channels (e.g., using iw or iwconfig). Implement channel hopping in the Python script by spawning a subprocess to change the wireless interface channel and capture packets on each channel. Use threading to handle channel switching and packet capture. Consider using scapy or pyshark to control channel hopping.
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python
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networkingcli
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Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
4
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
3-5 days
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PythonBasic Wi Fi concepts
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
30