Tuesday, July 03, 2018

packet sniffing wifi

Packet sniffing on a wifi network is a bit more complicated than using a wired network and a hub. Promiscuous mode alone is not enough -

https://osqa-ask.wireshark.org/questions/61656/promiscuous-mode-not-working

https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN#Monitor_mode

Then the packets have to be decrypted.

https://wiki.wireshark.org/HowToDecrypt802.11

For that, if using WEP, the WEP password has to be converted to the Hexadecimal key -
http://corecoding.com/utilities/wep2hex.php

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