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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > 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?
iw - show / manipulate wireless devices and their configuration
Usage: iw [options] command
Options:
--debug enable netlink debugging
--version show version
Commands:
help
event
list
phy <phyname> info
dev <devname> set channel <channel> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-]
phy <phyname> set channel <channel> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-]
dev <devname> set freq <freq> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-]
phy <phyname> set freq <freq> [HT20|HT40+|HT40-]
phy <phyname> set name <new name>
dev <devname> set meshid <meshid>
dev <devname> set monitor <flag> [...]
dev <devname> info
dev <devname> del
dev <devname> interface add <name> type <type> [mesh_id
<meshid>] [flags ...]
phy <phyname> interface add <name> type <type> [mesh_id
<meshid>] [flags ...]
dev <devname> station dump
dev <devname> station set <MAC address> plink_action <open|block>
dev <devname> station del <MAC address>
dev <devname> station get <MAC address>
dev <devname> mpath dump
dev <devname> mpath set <destination MAC address> next_hop
<next hop MAC address>
dev <devname> mpath new <destination MAC address> next_hop
<next hop MAC address>
dev <devname> mpath del <MAC address>
dev <devname> mpath get <MAC address>
reg set <ISO/IEC 3166-1 alpha2>
dev <devname> get mesh_param <param>
dev <devname> set mesh_param <param> <value>