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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Question on wireless sniffing and Cisco AP modes

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:07:51 +0200
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 04:02:44PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Apr 27, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Steven Pfister wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to learn a little about wireless troubleshooting. In  
> > reading about the sniffer mode of Cisco APs, a lot of the Cisco  
> > pages I've read say it requires Airopeek. But a Cisco Press book I'm  
> > reading says "operates with an Omnipeek, Airmagnet, or Wireshark  
> > server."  Is there such a thing as a Wireshark server?
> 
> Perhaps there is, but nobody appears to have bothered to tell the  
> Wireshark core team about it. :-)

Acutally, someone did:

$ svn log packet-airopeek.c

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r26743 | wmeier | 2008-11-10 18:59:13 +0100 (Mo, 10. Nov 2008) | 2 lines

Call tvb_new_subset with correct offset no matter whether tree is TRUE or FALSE

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r24395 | jmayer | 2008-02-19 23:08:11 +0100 (Di, 19. Feb 2008) | 1 line

Update todo section
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r23852 | jmayer | 2007-12-13 00:26:39 +0100 (Do, 13. Dez 2007) | 3 lines

The extra bytes seem to go away if I call wlan_datapad instead
of wlan.

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r23851 | jmayer | 2007-12-13 00:03:44 +0100 (Do, 13. Dez 2007) | 4 lines

Beginnings of airopeek remote capture support.
The metainformation is not yet decoded, also, there
are problems with QoS frames (extra bytes).

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Ciao
    Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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