Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal and WLAN sniffing.

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From: "Ulf Bertilsson" <ulf.bertilsson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:35:04 +0100
> > Does anyone have a document or webpage about how to set an 
> Ethereal to 
> > sniff an 802.11 wireless LAN?
> 
> Try http://www.goonda.org/wireless/aironet/ but if you've 
> been through "many documents" I suspect you've seen that one already.
> 
> If you run tcpdump on the relevant interface, does that 
> display the traffic?
> 
> I'm certainly not an expert on the subject, but if you get 
> nothing from tcpdump either I'd guess that the problem lies 
> with your wireless card configuration rather than with ethereal.

I have an very good working setup on my portable.
I might have time tomorrow to tell/point to how to setup.

It's based on Cisco 430 cards.

I also have WEP tools, but we have yett to find anyone who have tured it
on :)

Maybe I should start an own malinglist on this subject ?