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It is also used for passive stumbling, a technique used in Wardriving where the wireless card listens for base stations instead of actively probing them to determine their presence. On Mac OS X, KisMAC can create an interface for the card in monitor mode, on AirPort Extreme cards. It is named wlt1, and can be captured from with Ethereal , Tcpdump or any other protocol analyzer. The only problem is that the card will be kept on whatever channel it was on before, and capturing traffic from all channels simultaneously is not possible. It does not generally have any positive uses besides troubleshooting. Often it is used in malicious ways, such as packet sniffing or WEP cracking. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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