Wireless Bridge Testing

Hi all, I curious if there is a product similar to NetStumbler that can be
used to test a wireless bridge of 2 WAP11's. I would like a product that I
could install on a Windows machine on my local network and monitor the
traffic across that bridge. I have no way to test this now as the remote
network is a network if dumb terminals. I also don't have any wireless
clients, just the bridge between the two lans. The remote network works
fine now, but we are considering adding some machines to that network that
might require a better transfer rate between the local lan and remote lan.
The distance between the sites is about 400 ft. with good line of site, so I
know that I am probably not getting max throughput, but I would like to know
exactly what it is. Also, it would be cool if it were freeware or
shareware, since I don't have a budget for this.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Justin


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> Hi all, I curious if there is a product similar to NetStumbler that can be
> used to test a wireless bridge of 2 WAP11's. I would like a product that I
> could install on a Windows machine on my local network and monitor the
> traffic across that bridge. I have no way to test this now as the remote

Netstumbler won't monitor traffic. If you want to monitor traffic
levels then you could use any one of the available LAN sniffers since
the traffic across the bridge will be lan traffic. You'd need to set
the filters to just show traffic to the remote LAN or depending on your
routing, just drop the sniffer on the segment where the bridge is.

Try www.ethereal.com for one such sniffer. Plenty of others.

I don't see that the wireless part is anything of significance here,
just treat it like any other WAN traffic and monitor as such.

> exactly what it is. Also, it would be cool if it were freeware or
> shareware, since I don't have a budget for this.

ethereal is just so.

David.