> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> If you were using the Orinoco drivers when sniffing was
> working a month
> ago, and it stopped working after you changed to the hostap drivers,
> that could be the problem - it might be that promiscuous mode
> works with
> the Orinoco drivers but not with the hostap drivers. If so,
> you should
> definitely tell the hostap list about it.
I did.. No reply till now
>
> > Although I'm not sure if sniffing is only limited to the
> channel which I am
> > on.
>
> I'm not a radio expert, but I think that an 802.11 device can only
> receive on one channel - the manual for Sniffer Wireless
> indicates thatit implements a "channel surfing" mode, but in that mode it
appears to listen on a given channel for some number of seconds, and
> then switch to
> the next enabled channel and listen on that for some number
> of seconds,
I changed to hostap due to the above actually. They "I-net ppl" were saying
better support and that kind of stuffs so I gave it a go. My experience has
not been good using it.
>
> > I only wanted to verify that it's not because there's some
> new advances in wifi tech that stops sniffing.
>
> I don't know of any. (Perhaps some future form of 802.11
> might use, for example, channel hopping with a pseudo-random pattern
generated from a key that two hosts share in some fashion that prevents a
third party from getting the key, e.g. some form of public-key encryption,
so that
> a third party won't be able to follow the conversation
That.. I think wouldn't be long coming.
Thanks