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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Wireshark for Beacon Sniffing

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:59:27 +0100
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 06:33:57PM -0500, Johne Cookcely wrote:
> Hi! I am moving to wireshark for use in sniffing wireless 802.11 beacons. My team used to use Wildpackets OminPeek. However, I am having an issue. Wireshark averages 166305 beacons/hr in my location, channel 6, while OmniPeek averaged 293149 beacon/hr, same location, same channel, same card. I am using the latest stable releases of wireshark, tcpdump, libpcap (1.0.5, 4.0.0, 1.0.0). Why is there this discrepancy? Thanks!

Can you please provide captures created with both programs so we may compare
them to find the differences.

Thanks
        Joerg
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