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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
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>> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into
>> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley
>> > on my network in wireshark?
>>
>> ifconfig eth1 promisc
>>
>> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode
>> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same.
>>
>>
>
> Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package:
>
> airmon-ng start wlan0
Thanks everyone. I didn't realize it but monitor mode is what I'm
after. aircrack-ng looks interesting too. Is there something similar
with a GUI? airsnort seems to be discontinued. What is iw for?
- Grant