Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

[Saphirus Sage]

Grant wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into
>>>> promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley
>>>> on my network in wireshark?
>>>>         
>>> ifconfig eth1 promisc
>>>
>>> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode
>>> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package:
>>
>> airmon-ng start wlan0
>>     
>
> Thanks everyone.  I didn't realize it but monitor mode is what I'm
> after.  aircrack-ng looks interesting too.  Is there something similar
> with a GUI?  airsnort seems to be discontinued.  What is iw for?
>
> - Grant
>
>   
iwconfig is the command in the "wireless-tools" package to configure a
wireless interface.