Sniffing Instaburst Packets

RE: Sniffing Instaburst Packets

Mttrinh — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:40:43 GMT

Hi,

This is a proprietary feature. You should be able to view the raw BLE packets (extended advertisements) with packet sniffers but these sniffers will not be able to tell you what they contain and how mesh PDUs are packed within them. So in a limited way you can use sniffers, but they will have major limitation for doing analysis of the mesh protocol operating using instaburst packets.

Sniffer was used during the development, and it should be possible to observe the raw packets using ellisys tracker.

RE: Sniffing Instaburst Packets

stivberb — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:08:39 GMT

My understanding is that Instaburst uses standard BLE framing for the packets (i.e extended advertisements and regular mesh packet transmissions), just packaged into a proprietary Nordic payload. If this is the case, why is Wireshark or Ellisys not able to view these packets?

Also, if it’s not possible to view packets using these tools, are there other tools available for me to test it’s functionality? How was the feature developed without the ability to view over the air packet transmissions?

Thanks

RE: Sniffing Instaburst Packets

Mttrinh — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:41:48 GMT

Hi,

Unfortunately, you are not able to sniff the mesh packets when the instaburst feature is enabled. Instaburst packets are custom proprietary packets. Ellisys and Wireshark will not be able to show them.