Re: Want to capture WLAN packets
Andreas Fink <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.ethereal.user |
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On 13.06.2006, at 19:45, Guy Harris wrote: > madhur wrote: > >> I want to capture 802.11 WLAN packets from Ethereal. But when I >> tried with >> NetGear wireless card, I was able to capture Ping packets >> >> But It was not showing any WLAN packets like >> >> 1) Beacon frames >> >> 2) Authentication request/response >> >> 3) Association request/response >> >> So please any buddy can tell me how to capture these packets. > > Step 1: make absolutely sure you are *NOT* running Windows on the > machine > on which you're running Ethereal. Trying to capture those frames on > Windows is pretty much hopeless. > > For information about capturing them on Linux or one of the BSDs, see > > http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN > > You will, as another reply noted, probably have to put your WLAN > adapter > into monitor mode to see those packets. Note that, when in monitor > mode, > your adapter will not be associated with any access point, and > probably > won't even work in ad-hoc mode, so you'll probably want to turn off > host > name resolution unless the machine is also connected to some other > wireless network or a wired network. is this possible on MacOS X? Does apple's driver support monitor mode and if yes, how is it enabled? Andreas Fink Fink Consulting GmbH --------------------------------------------------------------- Tel: +41-61-6666332 Fax: +41-61-6666331 Mobile: +41-79-2457333 Address: Clarastrasse 3, 4058 Basel, Switzerland E-Mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.finkconsulting.com --------------------------------------------------------------- ICQ: 101946485 MSN: [email protected] AIM: smsrelay Skype: andreasfink Yahoo: finkconsulting SMS: +41792457333 PGP9: 0714 DF2B A189 A760 6201 5CBD D040 3E71 4DAF 68BB