On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 13:15 +0000, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > On 20/11/11 09:39, Peter Merchant wrote: > > > > Second, I want to know if it really is the tablet, so am considering > > putting wireshark on the laptop. It looks like a standard package, but > > though there is an 'Airpcap' driver for Windows versions, I don't know > > whether it will work on wireless under linux. > > > > Yes, it works very well. I've used it successfully. You may need to set > your wireless card to "monitor" mode to make it work, or you may find it > just works anyway. > > In some ways, it's better that using it on a wire, because you see all > the network traffic. If your network is encrypted, you can give > wireshark the key and it will decrypt packets on the fly too. > > It does work very well. I have to run it as root in order to make the capture device available, though there are instructions on how to set it up differently so that an ordinary user can use it. Not instructions that a relative newbie can follow though.
The tablet keeps asking "who'se on 192.168.1.2-3-4-5" etc. I am glad that I have a very small subnet (255.255.255.248) or it would really hammer the system. It's a higher level function, so needs more work. I'll try the netstat command from the tablet, if it is supported. Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
