Experiments with nl80211 in Rust

Licensed under the MIT license.

Example

If run without arguments the example program will listen for nl80211 events. If a new scan event is received the scan results will be fetched.

$ cargo run --release --example nl80211

It is also possible to initiate a scan as super user.

sudo ./target/release/examples/nl80211 scan

lib.rs:

Information Elements

Somewhat structured data with 802.11 information data.

References

• 802.11-2012 standard
• Wireshark 802.11 dissector, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wireshark/wireshark/master/epan/dissectors/packet-ieee80211.c
• Hostapd, https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/src/common/ieee802_11_defs.h