There are multiple considerations in wireless communication which make it different as compared to wired packet captures. Wireless packet captures are an important part of troubleshooting complex wireless connectivity issues. This document can be a good tool to reference if you have acquired wireless packet captures and need to analyze them. The main purpose of the document is to give an understanding of the 802.11 packet structure and how to analyze wireless packet captures.

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Monitor Mode for Wireless Packet Captures.

Any idea what this fault means? I wouldn't have thought this was possible - TCP should retry and get the data through but it didn't and the tablet reported 'no response'. wireshark reported the fault and it was a real fault. When I looked in wireshark it said 'TCP out of order' i.e. I assume my laptop needs to be connected to the same LAN as the access point.īy the way, I tried wireshark out at my home with the Bridge scoring software running and my tablet reported an error - it didn't get the feedback from the scoring machine that it was supposed to.

I can find out the IP address of the access point and the tablet and I know how to filter in wireshark but how do I tell wireshark to monitor the traffic on the remote access point. I would like to use wireshark to capture the transaction between a tablet and an access point when it goes wrong. The result of a hand is sent over wifi to the scoring machine but sometimes a tablet reports 'no response' and we usually have to turn wifi off and on on a tablet to get it to work again.

We are having some problems at my Bridge club where we use tablets to do scoring.

Wireshark capture wifi traffic