Wireless Cracking / Hacking on the FreeRunner

[Brandon Kruse]

I have an atheros chip in my laptop and I can do both modes.

If just monitor mode is supported, I can do most of the penetrations/ 
sniffing anyways.



-brandon

On May 17, 2008, at 5:16 AM, "Federico Lorenzi" <florenzi at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Brad Midgley <bmidgley at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hey
>>
>>> There is an email from Andy Green in March saying says we don't have
>>> monitor mode, which I think means no promiscuous mode.
> AFAIK monitor mode and promiscuous mode are two different things.
> Monitor mode makes the card receive everything going over the air, not
> just packets with its SSID, while promiscuous mode allows you to
> receive IP traffic not destined for you (in a network connected with a
> hub, when you use a switch, things get interesting with ARP hijacking
> and the like)
>
> Cheers,
> Federico
>
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