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Re: About capture Bluetooth packets
From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:15:52 -0700
On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:43 PM, nehemiah wrote:
wireshark and tcpdump capture packets from network devices. bluetooth is more similar to a USB device.
...and both Wireshark and tcpdump can, at least on Linux, capture on both Bluetooth and USB if the machine on which you're capturing has: 1) a sufficiently recent version of libpcap (1.0.0 or later, although, for USB, you probably want 1.1.0 or later) that was configured with USB and Bluetooth support - whether you have that is up to the makers of your Linux distribution, although you could try configuring and building libpcap yourself and either rebuilding tcpdump/Wireshark/whatever with it or building it and installing it as a replacement for the distribution's libpcap shared library); 2) a Bluetooth or USB stack in the kernel that supports the capture mechanism used by libpcap. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
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