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Old 10-07-2005, 09:00 AM   #1
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Ethereal and Kismet wireless sniffers difference


What is the difference between Ethereal/Tethereal, Kismet and other open source wireless sniffers?
Do they do capture/filtering with the same libpcap?
Is the major difference is the UI?
 
Old 10-08-2005, 07:19 AM   #2
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kismet is for detecting wireless networks, ethereal is for packetsniffing data within that network (or any ethernet segment at all. ethereal isn't a "wireless" tool.
 
  


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