802.15.4 Packet Capturing with Wireshark

This µracoli contribution describes, how the traffic on a IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor network can monitored. Therefore the sniffer firmware (see Simple Sniffer and Scanner Application) and the program wireshark/tshark are used. The connection between the serial interface of the PC and wireshark is realized with the small python application ieee802154.py.

• Setup on Linux
• Setup on Windows
• Application Description
• Technical Background