An example program for sniffing 802.15.4 traffic on a specific channel.
It can run on Windows or Posix and can:
Run ./sniffer with no args to print the help page.
sniffer.exe [OPTIONS] CHANNEL
Print all received packets on channel (11-26)
DESCRIPTION
Sniffer program to use the CA-8211 to capture packets on a channel.
-p PCap mode, output pcap data instead of descriptive hex
dump. If this is used in conjunction with pipes, can be
used to stream to wireshark
-d Debug mode, print verbose information to stderr.
-n [PIPENAME] Output to a named pipe/fifo, which can be read by
wireshark or another program. Most useful in conjunction
with '-p'.
-w Open WireShark to process the packet capture. Implies -p
and -n (random name for pipe if not provided separately).
-W [PATH] Open WireShark at the path to process the packet capture.
Implies -w.
For instance the -w argument can be used to automatically boot wireshark and connect. On unix platforms the usage is more flexible and can use command line pipes such as:
# Start sniffer on channel 21, pcap output, pipe to tshark, which is receiving on stdin.
./sniffer 21 -p | tshark -i -