Re: support for Bluetooth protocol live capture

[Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko.news () gmail com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:50 PM, vijay wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me if wireshark support live capture of bluetooth traffic.
>
> On Linux, yes.
>
> > Wireshark wiki says libpcap supports live capture of bluetooth packets , Wireshark can read pcap files containing 
> > bluetooth traffic.
> > But wireshark cannot capture bluetooth traffic. I donot understand why it is so?
>
> It's so because nobody'd bothered to update the CaptureSetup/Bluetooth page on the Wireshark wiki to indicate that 
> Bluetooth capturing is now supported if Wireshark is using a sufficiently-recent version of libpcap and running on a 
> system with a kernel with the Affix Bluetooth stack (which I think is the basis of the official Bluetooth stack 
> that's now a standard part of the kernel). :-)

This is not exactly correct. Affix was a competing stack from Nokia
which never came to official Linux kernel despite some parts were
rewritten for bluez.

Regards,
Andrei

> > wont the above 2 features be sufficient for live capture?
>
> Yes, so I updated the page.
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