Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Network Monitor 3.1 Info

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 9, 2007, at 12:46 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:

> · Wireless (802.11) capturing and monitor mode on Vista - With  
> supported
> hardware, (Native WIFI), you can now trace wireless management  
> packets.
> You can scan all channels or a subset of the ones your wireless NIC
> supports. You can also focus in on one specific channel. We now show  
> the
> wireless metadata for normal wireless frames. This is really cool for
> t-shooting wireless problems. See signal strength and transfer speed  
> as
> you walk around your house!

Cool - I saw some stuff about Native Wi-Fi in Vista, but wasn't sure  
whether it'd let a network analyzer get raw 802.11 packets.

Of course, on certain other OSes that might well have run on your PC  
well before Vista came out, you could already do that, but....

Hopefully either WinPcap will be able to directly access that stuff  
through NDIS or they'll be able to use whatever driver NM3 uses to get  
at it.