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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Capture traffic in monitor mode - only broadcasts

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 01:42:16 +0200
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:22:19AM +0200, S.A. Moeys wrote:
> ...MSI ralink wlan adapter...

> I put the wlan adapter on monitor mode and adjusted the channel to the one my router is broadcasting through, using iwconfig. In wireshark, it captures a lot of packets, but they're all broadcasts from a the access point. It's on the right SSID and the right channel, but apart from a few occasional SMC broadcasts I can't capture any traffic on the network.


I would guess that this question should be asked on the ralink support
list and not on a wireshakr support list. Do other applications manage
to capture unicast wireless frames (e.g. kismet)?

 ciao
    Joerg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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