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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] wireless lan packet

From: Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:47:51 -0400
Daniel Svensson wrote:

Hello!
I have got my wireshark to work perfectly. but when i read the FAQ on the net, i see that people want to see packets that is sent with 802.11 WLAN. Is it possible to watch all open traffic with wireshark? if so, how?

It depends ...

If you just want to see the "user data packets" (similar to what you would see when capturing from a wired network connection), you should have no problems.

If you want to see "wireless management frames" and similar. it gets a lot more complicated.

See:   http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN