While I have just finished my degree in Networking I have never really been able to route around under the hood of wireless routers. I came across openwrt a week ago and was wondering is there away to see all data packets sent to the router for connected devices and devices that are in the area sending out signals for connections? I have a thesis to do and I am thinking about doing it on the security of wireless devices connecting to AP's and dealing with devices like WiFi Pineapple that act like rough access points and steal data.
While I am proficient in Python and Java I am short on other languages.