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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into |
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>>> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley |
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>>> > on my network in wireshark? |
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>>> |
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>>> ifconfig eth1 promisc |
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>>> |
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>>> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode |
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>>> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>> |
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>> Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: |
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>> airmon-ng start wlan0 |
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> Thanks everyone. I didn't realize it but monitor mode is what I'm |
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> after. aircrack-ng looks interesting too. Is there something similar |
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> with a GUI? airsnort seems to be discontinued. What is iw for? |
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iw - show / manipulate wireless devices and their configuration |
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Usage: iw [options] command |
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Options: |
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--debug enable netlink debugging |
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--version show version |
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Commands: |
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help |
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event |
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list |
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phy <phyname> info |
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dev <devname> set channel <channel> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] |
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phy <phyname> set channel <channel> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] |
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dev <devname> set freq <freq> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] |
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phy <phyname> set freq <freq> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] |
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phy <phyname> set name <new name> |
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dev <devname> set meshid <meshid> |
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dev <devname> set monitor <flag> [...] |
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dev <devname> info |
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dev <devname> del |
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dev <devname> interface add <name> type <type> [mesh_id |
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<meshid>] [flags ...] |
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phy <phyname> interface add <name> type <type> [mesh_id |
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<meshid>] [flags ...] |
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dev <devname> station dump |
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dev <devname> station set <MAC address> plink_action <open|block> |
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dev <devname> station del <MAC address> |
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dev <devname> station get <MAC address> |
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dev <devname> mpath dump |
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dev <devname> mpath set <destination MAC address> next_hop |
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<next hop MAC address> |
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dev <devname> mpath new <destination MAC address> next_hop |
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<next hop MAC address> |
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dev <devname> mpath del <MAC address> |
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dev <devname> mpath get <MAC address> |
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reg set <ISO/IEC 3166-1 alpha2> |
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dev <devname> get mesh_param <param> |
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dev <devname> set mesh_param <param> <value> |
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