Re: Bluetooth capture on Mac?

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Sep 26, 2014, at 6:39 AM, "Paul Raine" <praine () solutions-eng com> wrote:

> On 25 Sep 2014, at 10:43:57 AM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
>
> > On Sep 25, 2014, at 6:35 AM, "Paul Raine" <praine () solutions-eng com> wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible to capture Bluetooth packets using Wireshark on Mac?
> > > I know this is possible on Linux, (but not windows), but what about OS-X?
> >
> > Not with libpcap-based applications such as Wireshark.  Apple's PacketLogger
> > program can be used to capture Bluetooth traffic to and from the Mac, and
> > Wireshark can read its files, but the interfaces it uses to capture the
> > traffic are not, as far as I know, documented, so they're not easily
> > available to libpcap.
>
> Oh, so no live capture, but I could use Wireshark to analyze the packets
> afterwards, right?

Yes - no live capture with Wireshark (or tcpdump or other libpcap-based application), but it *is* supported with 
PacketLogger, and Wireshark can read PacketLogger files.
___________________________________________________________________________
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