Hi, Thanks for catching my typo I was referring to AIRCAP
I have code that works with winpcap and a Ethernet connection if airpcap is the answer To making it work with a wireless connection Then that's what I am looking for thanks -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guy Harris Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] Wireless adapters with WinPcap On Jan 21, 2013, at 10:34 PM, Joe Reichman <[email protected]> wrote: > As I understand it winPcap only works With Ethernet adapters In principle, it's not restricted to Ethernet adapters, but, in practice: 1) it's a lot less useful with Wi-Fi adapters (it should be able to capture traffic in non-promiscuous mode on a Wi-Fi adapter, but promiscuous mode doesn't work due to driver and/or hardware limitations, with the driver limitations perhaps *required* by Microsoft, and it doesn't support monitor mode at all); 2) it doesn't handle PPP (dial-up, VPN, mobile phone data service, etc.) adapters on many versions of Windows; 3) it should in theory be able to handle Token Ring and various other types, but I don't know whether it's ever been tried with them, and they're probably not of very great interest these days. So, while there are some cases where it's useful on Wi-Fi adapters, there are a lot of cases where it's not. > If I want to achieve the same functionality with wireless adapters is > Airplane the solution I've never heard of Airplane in this context, and, as one might expect, Google searches such as Airplane windows and Airplane wi-fi produce a ton of chaff having nothing to do with hardware or software for capturing Wi-Fi traffic, so I don't know whether it's the solution or not Did you mean AirPcap? If so, then *if* you want to use WinPcap, whether in your own application or an existing application such as WinDump or Wireshark, to capture Wi-Fi traffic, it's the only solution I know of. If you just want an existing application that can capture on Wi-Fi on Windows, there are other alternatives; Microsoft Network Monitor: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4865 has its own capture mechanism (which *does* support NDIS 6, so, on versions of Windows that support NDIS 6, i.e. Windows Vista and later, it can capture in monitor mode on Wi-Fi interfaces *if the driver supports it correctly*, but there are people who claim that rather a lot of drivers don't), and it's free (unlike an AirPcap adapter), and there are commercial applications, such as CommView for Wi-Fi: https://www.tamos.com/products/commwifi/ which include their own drivers, and thus may not support as many adapters *but* may be more likely to work correctly with those adapters. Note that Wireshark can read captures from both Network Monitor and CommView. _______________________________________________ Winpcap-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users _______________________________________________ Winpcap-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users
