another thing i wanna ask is whether is need to 'open' up my wireless card in order to see others' packet? or just buy a prism chipset card then install ethereal and that it.. i can see others' network packets..
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another thing i wanna ask is whether is need to 'open' up my wireless card in order to see others' packet? or just buy a prism chipset card then install ethereal and that it.. i can see others' network packets..
I'd just get a chepie Prism card and not worry about it. There are not the best, but good enough and just about everything seems to support them. About a year ago I got two from Tiger direct for about $10 each, there were Speedstream brand with a Prism chipset. Check out what cards you can get cheap by using Froogle, Pricewatch and Newegg then do a Google search to find out what chipset they have and how well supported they are.
OK Iron....
Comcast Cable, or at least, Comcast with the modem I currently have filters traffic not for me at the modem. I ran for about 5 minutes and I saw packets for my IP from "the world", broadcast packets from within the Comcast network and a lot of UDP traffic on the 10.0.0.0 network much of it being from what I guess is an "is it still there" broadcast from my cable modem, (I know the modems are on the 10.0.0.0 subnet).
Did you try yours yet?
Damn, I went for a beer (cider in my case) after work and forgot about it. I'll attempt to remeber to try it soon and let you know.
I did the test today. After doing some further checking, it would seem you are correct Tiger Shark. Even if I was able to sniff my cable segment before (which I’m not sure I could) I can’t now. All the traffic I see is either ARP broadcasts, stuff I’m sending or traffic meant for me. I admit I was mistaken.
Hey, NP.... I could sniff everyone 5 or 6 years ago if I wanted..... I guess they wised up to it and changed the modems.