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Re: Sniffing Wireless with Wireshark?


From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:29:00 -0800


On Nov 1, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Steve Evans wrote:

Presumably by "PCAP (or similar) adapters" you mean
"AirPcap (or
similar) adapters":

Correct. We've grown accustomed to calling them "PCAP" for short.

Given that not everybody's familiar with that convention - I've never  
heard it, for example - and that "pcap" is also used to refer to  
libpcap/WinPcap (see the Wikipedia page for "pcap", for example),  
using the full name is probably a better idea on the list.
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