Re: [ASL] looking for wireless sniffer tools

[Vikas K. <ka...@co...>]

Try Kismet <http://www.kismetwireless.net>.
It puts the card in RFmon mode, and can detect and log every packet in 
range, even ones it cannot decode or are no on the same essid.
You can set it to cycle through various channels as well.

-vikas


On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Luo Yang wrote:

->Dear all:
-> 
->I'm doing a project on the wireless 802.11b MAC layer design, trying to
->send out MAC packets to AP and receive the response from AP as normal
->802.11b cards. 
-> 
->I have a problem now that both AP and sniffer card can't receive the
->packets send by my card. The data frame is correct before it enters the
->modulator, according to the output from digital oscilloscope. With a
->spectrum analyzer and a wide band antenna, I can see the packet sent out
->to air from the RF antenna, at channel 13. 
-> 
->I'm using Airopeek, a software to receive every packet in the air, and a
->normal 802.11b card to receive the pacets sent by the modified card. But
->it can't receive anything from it. 
-> 
->My question is, is there any tool can receive and store every byte
->received at the card. I hope to find that maybe part of the packet
->received at the normal card.
-> 
->Thanks
-> 
->Luo Yang
->

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