A wireless sniffer captures the packets sent from a computer through the computer s wireless network card to an access point or another computer. It captures these packets as raw Data with the packet information header.

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*[http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/sniffing-faq.html Packet Sniffing FAQ (by Robert Graham)] - [http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/security/sniffing-faq.html mirror 1] - [http://www.google.com/searchq=%22Sniffing+%28network+wiretap%2C+sniffer%29+FAQ%22 search google for more mirrors]

*Wireless Packet Sniffers: **[http://www.tamos.com/products/commwifi/ CommView for WiFi] **[http://www.sniff-em.com Sniff-em] **[http://www.tcpdump.org/ tcpdump] — See tcpdump **[http://www.ethereal.com The Ethereal Network Analyzer] — See Ethereal **[http://www.packetyzer.com/ Packetyzer] **[http://www.wildpackets.com/products/airopeek WildPackets AiroPeek]

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