Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Wireless packet captured

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From: "Evelyn Tan" <lstan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 15:08:14 +0800
Thanks for your quick reply Martin.

But what I mean here is... from where I can get the source code that do the
capturing stuff of the wireless packets from the NIC. (in which file??? )

Regards...
Evelyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Regner [mailto:martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 October 2002 14:33
To: Evelyn Tan; ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Wireless packet captured



Evelyn Tan wrote:
>I am currently studying how ethereal do all the wireless packet capturing
>stuff. Can somebody please tell me which are the files that contain the
code
>that do the wireless packet captured stuff. I believe it is not done by
>libpcap, am i right?
>
>Besides, is there any sample on wireless packet? I find it difficult to get
>even when i run ethereal and chose to use the wireless NIC, those packets
>seems like ethenet packet. I couldn't find any 802.11 packet. Is this what
>it should be?

Hi Evelyn,

I think that you should read FAQ  Q5.24 about 802.11 capturing:

http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.24

and also check out this page:
http://www.ethereal.com/media.html

Best regards,
 Martin