actually I figured it out. It is ifconfig <devicename> -promisc It works well actually. I am just reading traffic out of the air now with TCPdump -i eth0 -n not broadcast and not arp I knew it worked with NAI's Sniffer 802.11, but they have custom drivers. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Blake [mailto:rickb@cybernexus.net] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 3:25 PM To: Dominick, David Cc: Linux Netorking Email List Subject: Re: Probably a simple question You're not going to like this, but I bet putting a wireless card into promiscuous mode is going to be unsatisfying. I suspect it's hard to get it to actually accept the signal for all other cards, which would be the equivalent of wired promiscuity. If you want to monitor all other traffic in and out of your access point, you'll probably need that to be promiscuous, or settle for monitoring the LAN segment. This is just a guess, based on what I know of 802.11. Rick - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
