On May 9, 2007, at 12:46 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:
· Wireless (802.11) capturing and monitor mode on Vista - With
supported
hardware, (Native WIFI), you can now trace wireless management
packets.
You can scan all channels or a subset of the ones your wireless NIC
supports. You can also focus in on one specific channel. We now show
the
wireless metadata for normal wireless frames. This is really cool for
t-shooting wireless problems. See signal strength and transfer speed
as
you walk around your house!
Cool - I saw some stuff about Native Wi-Fi in Vista, but wasn't sure
whether it'd let a network analyzer get raw 802.11 packets.
Of course, on certain other OSes that might well have run on your PC
well before Vista came out, you could already do that, but....
Hopefully either WinPcap will be able to directly access that stuff
through NDIS or they'll be able to use whatever driver NM3 uses to get
at it.