Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Outgoing packets are not shown

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:42:41 -0700

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 7:34 PM, James Kawalek wrote:
Your problem is the library. Neither WinPcap nor LibPcap seem to be capable of reassembling the radio transmissions sent out of a wireless card. It can only reassemble packets sent TO a wireless card on that machine (the host running ethereal).
Neither LibPcap nor WinPcap even *try* to reassemble *any* packets. Libpcap just takes what packets the native OS packet capture mechanism hands it, and that just takes what packets the driver hands it; WinPcap's libpcap-level code just takes what packets the packet.dll library hands it, and that just takes what packets the WinPcap driver hands it, and that just takes what packets the network device driver hands it through NDIS.
So his problem is probably with the driver and/or the card, not the library. 


Your best bet is to install linux and download AirSnort.
...which uses libpcap, so if libpcap were the problem, AirSnort wouldn't help.