No, I am really looking for packet data, but perhaps packet metadata a la DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO. As a first step, I want the data source labeled, so I can know if I have queueing delays or not. The point of tapping at tx complete is that you can find out how many retries were used and what the actual rate for that packet was (sometimes an 802.11 interface will drop back to 1 Mb/s after failing to get an ack at the chosen rate), or if no ack was received. I wanted this data to compute the ETX metric http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/grid:mobicom03/paper.pdf http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/decouto/abstract.html which is otherwise a bit hard to get. I was relatively unconcerned about processing overhead and how the software was functioning etc. In my case I added a new 'tracerecord' DLT that had a metadata record for each packet with the at-tx-complete stats.
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