You would need an airpcap hardware adapter if you wanted to use the airpcap api. What you want may be possible through a standard wifi adapter but I'm not sure the hardware provides that much control.
Chris On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:36 PM, gonzalo diethelm <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would imagine something like airpcap would be useful for this. I've >> recently added airpcap support to sharppcap, http://sharppcap.sf.net > > Chris, thanks for the pointer to AirPcap. It seems there is no open / free > version available for this product, is that correct? > > What is the difference between AirPcap and WinPcap? I understand WinPcap can > capture network traffic from any kind of network adapter, including wireless > adapters (802.11). Is that right? Would that ability be enough to capture > packets coming from access points to which the local adapter is not > connected, and sniff the AP's MAC addresses? > > I will start trying my hand on the examples provided in WinPcap's > documentation. Thanks again for your help. > > -- > Gonzalo Diethelm > > _______________________________________________ Winpcap-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users
