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Re: Promiscuous mode on MacBook Pro
From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:11:31 -0800
On Jan 7, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Daniel Briley wrote:
My question still stands - Is anyone able to shed some light on why promiscuous mode might not work in my situation?
To quote somebody: "Not all wireless drivers support promiscuous mode." and "In addition, if your network has any form of encryption (WEP, WPA/WPA2), while the adapter might be able to, in promiscuous mode, *capture* all traffic on your local network, it probably won't be able to *decrypt* it (that being the whole point of encrypting wireless traffic), and might well just drop those packets on the floor for that reason." Neither of those are "this is definitely the answer", but they at least suggest a *possibility* for the answer. Try capturing in monitor mode (select 802.11 or 802.11+radiotap headers), and use the filter type data and not broadcast and not multicast and not host {your wireless adapter's MAC address} to see whether that captures any traffic for other hosts (use that filter rather than the one I mentioned in an earlier message). ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Promiscuous mode on MacBook Pro Daniel Briley (Jan 06)
- Re: Promiscuous mode on MacBook Pro Stephen Fisher (Jan 06)
- Re: Promiscuous mode on MacBook Pro Guy Harris (Jan 06)
- Re: Promiscuous mode on MacBook Pro Daniel Briley (Jan 07)
- Re: Promiscuous mode on MacBook Pro Guy Harris (Jan 07)