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September 21st, 2004, 12:20 AM
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Why can I sniff 802.11g with my 802.11b card?
Penguin and I would both like to know this. Why can I sniff 802.11g with my 802.11b card? I need to look again, maybe it’s only seeing the headers of the packets. I already know they do use the same frequency, but the encoding is different. Since they are a little different in how they encode things you would think that a B card could not sniff G, but I know for a fact that my B card in my laptop can sniff traffic from my G card in my desktop to my G router (I just tested). Maybe someone else could enlighten us to why this is so.
Edit: By sniff I mean see data packet (emule in this case), not just find WAPs.
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