Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] INTEL PRO WIRELESS NOT CAPTURING

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 18, 2003, at 7:55 AM, Kain, Becki (B.) wrote:

> I've found that with Cisco 340 and 350 cards as well, but it really is 
> an issue with the driver.  try doing a ping with your wireless, you 
> will probably see, as I do in Win 2k with the Cisco cards, only half 
> of the traffic (the outbound, but not the returns).

I haven't seen any of those problems with my Cisco 350 card, but that's 
because I run FreeBSD 4.6, not Windows NT 5.0, on my laptop. :-)  I can 
even do monitor-mode sniffing....  (I haven't checked whether, in 
promiscuous mode but not monitor mode, I can see outgoing traffic, but 
given the way BPF works, I have no reason to expect that I *won't* see 
outgoing traffic, in addition to the incoming and third-party traffic I 
saw.)

Linux should also work better than Windows in that case.  People doing 
wireless sniffing with WinPcap-based applications on Windows should be 
prepared for disappointment....