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

From: "Daniel Svensson" <danielsvensson@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:08:05 +0100
Thank you for your quick answer!


I only want to see the user data packets.

What should i do to listen to the traffic that one laptop is sending to the
routher with a third party laptop?


Where is the function?








----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Meier" <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Community support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] wireless lan packet


> 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
>
>
>
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