Promiscuous monitoring of Wi-Fi networks has often been a source of confusion. It appears logical that if any Ethernet adapter can be used for promiscuous mode monitoring in a wired Ethernet network, then any Wireless Ethernet adapter is equally good for doing the same in a 802.11 a, b, or g network. Theoretically, this is true, but in practice, this is very far from reality because not all wireless NICs support promiscuous mode. Therefore to solve the problem related to wireless NICs and when all we need to monitor is the traffic between wireless stations and the internet; the proposed...
Promiscuous monitoring of Wi-Fi networks has often been a source of confusion. It appears logical that if any Ethernet adapter can be used for promisc...