Re: Wireshark for Android

[Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs () gmail com>]

On 2013-04-24 04:34, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:12 AM, Vladimir Bondar <vladimir91.bondar () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I'm a student who wants to take a part in Wireshark for Android developing.
> > I have just read about that, and I have a question does it work only with RTL 8187 adapter?

I have captured raw 802.11 frames on a number of different Android devices.

> libpcap can be compiled for Android; that's what Wireshark would use for Android, just as it uses libpcap or WinPcap on 
> other OSes.

If fact, if you compile engineering builds of Android tcpdump is 
included by default.

> The only way in which libpcap knows about particular Wi-Fi adapters is in code it uses to put adapters into monitor mode if 
> the driver is *not* a mac80211 driver; I *suspect* the drivers for adapters used on Android machines are new enough that 
> they're mac80211 drivers.

Unfortunately this is not universally true. A lot of devices use 
proprietary drivers that lacks monitor mode support.

Cheers,

Pontus Fuchs
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