Re: support for Bluetooth protocol live capture

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:50 PM, vijay wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if wireshark support live capture of bluetooth traffic.

On Linux, yes.

> Wireshark wiki says libpcap supports live capture of bluetooth packets , Wireshark can read pcap files containing 
> bluetooth traffic. 
> But wireshark cannot capture bluetooth traffic. I donot understand why it is so?

It's so because nobody'd bothered to update the CaptureSetup/Bluetooth page on the Wireshark wiki to indicate that 
Bluetooth capturing is now supported if Wireshark is using a sufficiently-recent version of libpcap and running on a 
system with a kernel with the Affix Bluetooth stack (which I think is the basis of the official Bluetooth stack that's 
now a standard part of the kernel). :-)

> wont the above 2 features be sufficient for live capture?

Yes, so I updated the page.
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