Re: detecting promiscuous 802.11x cards...
Jim Thompson <[email protected]>
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David Huseby wrote: > Is it possible to detect 802.11x cards in promiscuous mode? In theory > the answer is "no" because the cards would just be "listening" to all > packets on a channel. But in reality, do any of the cards change > behavior in a detectable way when in promiscuous mode? I was just > curious because I seem to recall that there is a way to detect 10/100 > ethernet nics in promiscuous mode on a LAN. You send the NIC an intentionally malformed ARP request. If it responds, the target IP address has the NIC in 'promiscuous' mode. I don't see any reason off-hand this wouldn't work against 802.11 NICs. jim _______________________________________________ Talk mailing list [email protected] http://seattlewireless.net/mailman/listinfo/talk