>> > 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
