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beast123

Member

Registered: 2008-09-11

Posts: 20

Gathering packets

Hello,

I am trying to collect packets by putting my card in monitor mode and using common tools, but my problem is no actual data is collected. All I get is broadcast packets.

I know I put my card in monitor mode correctly because iwconfig shows mode as monitor and I get some packets, but they are all broadcast packets.

I know it is not a problem with my card because , in the distro I had previous to arch, ubuntu, I had no problem collecting no matter the tool.

I know it is not the specific tools I use because I tryed both wireshark and airodump-ng and get the same symptoms, only broadcast packets, lots of broadcast packets.

I know it is not the specific network, because it is a high traffic network, and running wireshark on another laptop with Win xp gets plenty of data.

So I think i am missing some integral part of arch linux, I don't know what though.

Any help is appreciated

Last edited by beast123 (2008-09-23 19:16:31)

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Gathering packets

Maybe you should try posting this in the Networking sub-forum.  I'm not sure you're going to get an answer here in Newbie Corner.

Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,400

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Re: Gathering packets

And this has been reposted there (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=55717).  All replies to that thread.

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