On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Frank Knobbe wrote: > as far as I know, there are only two wireless network cards that > support promiscuous mode. One of them if the Cisco 340 (formerly an > Aironet product). If these cards are switched into promiscuous mode > by something like tcpdump, it takes usually a reset/restart of the > NIC or laptop to be able to send again (in normal mode). There are > some wireless sniffing products that will handle it correctly and > switch back without much ado. AiroPeek from WildPackets and the > Sniffer Wireless from NAI are two of them. I currently own a 3com 3crwe737a pcmcia card. True, the windows drivers which come with it appear to ignore promiscous mode, but the linux driver (for Symbol Spectrum 24t - which is identical) has no problem with it. By promiscous, as I was able to test it, I understand the ability to sniff pachets directed to other nodes of the wireless network... I was never able to capture ANY traffic before I got associated to an AP. If you mean something else, _please_ tell me. -- sekure at crosswinds.net [send message with 'send pgp key' somewhere ] [in the subject to receive my PGP public key]
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