["Simon Hailstone" <Simon.Hailstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Puneet,

 

Looking at those two MAC addresses you don't recognise,

I have to say I am not surprised ;-)

 

If you consider them as ASCII :

 

4f:43:41:54:49:4f  == "OCATIO"

4e:3a:68:74:74:70 == 'N: http'

 

Regards

 

Simon Hailstone

Orthogon Systems

 

-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Puneet
Sent: 24 March 2004 10:43
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ethereal-users] ethereal running on WLAN card

hi all,

 

i am trying to make ethereal on wlan on netgear MA311 PCI card 802.11b ( OS- Windows and ethereal 0.10.0 ). I wrote a small routine to put the card in monitor mode.

 

i guess i am able to put the card in monitor mode successfully. but when i started ethereal after putting the card in monitor mode. i am not getting the MAC header.

 

I have some queries. If you are interested i am attaching the trace file i got.

 

AP ip address- 192.168.0.1

user X- 192.168.1.100

My machine- 192.168.1.101

 

1. packet 53 is ARP and tells that some source MAC address is 4e:3a:68:74:74:70 and destination is 4f:43:41:54:49:4f. I don't have any source and MAC address like this in my network. what is this???

 

2.Packet 31 is a broadcast packet and source is my Netgear card. as far as i know packet transmission is not possible in monitor mode. then why ethereal is showing such packet. 

 

2. why i am not able to see MAC headers even though card is in monitor mode.

 

 

looking forward to get some food for thought from you gurus.

 

regards,

Puneet