this gets you most of the traffic from the AP with which you are associated. It doesn't give you all the traffic in the air that you can read. Dominick, David writes: > 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 > -- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
