From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSIZs-0006Nu-0E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:08:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9633E02A0; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:08:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2741E02A0 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:08:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so2892540ywm.46 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:08:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hEdZ+UtOCpuRRB+OcqtIyREAbXC1Ktf5G+abpvoNFuc=; b=UaE+kJzKlyq+ZkgTfDd5PTr9vb6pbyWqkIC8qyTGh0gRyKGfUK9ZBVBtU9cV7tueDZ 3uQYyWyoZ9WyYEJ4FdSIk6eXo/VtNf6CwTsE0dhcytsQOYTQHXQAX5jVsmPF4MJFK16B lBBSKn3249Xf7PEdQ8QbjUoelHbDAcETwpl+Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=O6nDdhLJ0ln/vYBtEAP+JigyRIuYfLmQ4Qn8dHTDCPWYdnQQymfPQDXqRYJNHqVBs9 kD1aWTWgpH7TxlBEFDvZR4qcqKaBiiV+8Rlbcnkph6pUrX4hC0UKoPDGvpysx23bALrn STEUJdQl4QhUDdVbFuCtOheJeaP6Iq7NQfcuQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.110.9 with SMTP id n9mr1886635ybm.23.1233180486444; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:08:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10901281217p12538284sf0be3011083cbb7b@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10901280900p33914cbci19ed49544757ee31@mail.gmail.com> <20090128171718.4D7B.1.NOFFLE@turbacz.local> <20090128204629.0ea80ad2.nexenta@evil-monkey-in-my-closet.com> <49bf44f10901281217p12538284sf0be3011083cbb7b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:08:06 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 497a5735a6449160 Message-ID: <58965d8a0901281408j1c96e353g7e4e1b2471a0c0ea@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5c6ca53f-80e8-4c7c-bcd5-cc673c25ca4f X-Archives-Hash: cf52ef7afaf58a8b758c5e33b6cc1d2d On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Grant 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 info dev set channel [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] phy set channel [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] dev set freq [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] phy set freq [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] phy set name dev set meshid dev set monitor [...] dev info dev del dev interface add type [mesh_id ] [flags ...] phy interface add type [mesh_id ] [flags ...] dev station dump dev station set plink_action dev station del dev station get dev mpath dump dev mpath set next_hop dev mpath new next_hop dev mpath del dev mpath get reg set dev get mesh_param dev set mesh_param