[Joe Tomasone <joe@xxxxxxxx>]

Unless I am missing something, Prismdump does not work with non-Prism 
cards.  Cisco is not a Prism-II based card.

        - Joe


At 12:55 AM 12/13/2001, you wrote:
> Dear ALL,
>
> I tried to use Ethereal to Decode PrismDump packets
> from a WLAN setup.
>
> Somehow, the second Octet in every packet is always
> wrong, resulting in Ethereal decoding the the packet
> as some other format. I checked though that the rest
> of the packet is correct.
>
> All i want to do is to do implement some form of a low
> cost WLAN monitoring on my own network. But its been a
> really rough ride.
>
> First, Ethereal with Libpcap (2001-11-26) seems to
> always get the bytes starting with the WEP-IVs wrong
> (the first part of every other packet is
> correct...i.e....BSSID, Dest MAC...etc..).
>
> PrismDump can get the whole thing right (i think) but
> somehow its 802.11 dump is intepreted by ethereal as
> some LLC packet.
>
> My setup is RH7.2, Libpcap (2001-11-26), Ethereal
> (0.8.20) and a Cisco Aironet 350 card.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Regards
> Darren
>
>
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