Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] wireless lan packet

[Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Svensson wrote:
> Hello!
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>  
> I have got my wireshark to work perfectly. but when i read the FAQ on 
> the net, i see that people want to see packets that is sent with 802.11 
> WLAN.
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>  
> Is it possible to watch all open traffic with wireshark? if so, how?
>  

It depends ...

If you just want to see the "user data packets" (similar to what you 
would see when capturing from a wired network connection), you should 
have no problems.

If you want to see "wireless management frames" and similar. it gets a 
lot more complicated.

See:   http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN