Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Wireless sniffing - FreeBSD 4.5 + Cisco LMC352?

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Guy Harris wrote:

> > I'm not going to worry too much about this until 4.6 is oficially
> > released.  Does anyone know if monitor mode is ever going to be
> > natively supported by OpenBSD?  Can the FreeBSD driver/ancontrol be
> > ported?
>
> It probably could be ported, but I don't know what plans there are.
>
> Bill Studenmund of NetBSD has mentioned some 802.11 BPF issues in a
> discussion on a NetBSD list that got forwarded to the tcpdump-workers
> mailing list; perhaps the {Free,Net,Open}BSD people - and the Darwin
> people, considering at least one company selling computers with a
> Darwin-based OS (the fruit-flavored company in Cupertino, California,
> USA) certainly touts the wireless networking capabilities of their
> machines - should discuss this in common.  (Bill, would that be
> something that should be discussed on the bsd-api mailing list?)

Sorry, it's been a slow morning.

I think this would be appropriate either for the tcpdump list or the
bsd-api list. At least for what I was thinking of doing, the tcpdump list
would probably be best, but bsd-api works too.

Take care,

Bill