Wireless sniffer - Definition and Overview

A wireless sniffer captures the packets sent from a computer through the computer's wireless network card to an access point or another computer. It captures these packets as raw data with the packet information header.

External links

Wireless Packet Sniffers:

• Packet Sniffing FAQ (by Robert Graham) (http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/sniffing-faq.html)
• Packet sniffer (http://www.sniff-em.com)
• tcpdump (http://www.tcpdump.org/)
• The Ethereal Network Analyzer (http://www.ethereal.com)
• Packetyzer (http://www.packetyzer.com/)

See Also

• Packet sniffer