What just happened?

We just sniffed our first set of packets off the air! We launched Wireshark which used the monitor mode interface mon0 we have created previously. You will notice by looking at the footer region of Wireshark the speed at which the packets are being captured and also the number of packets captured till now.

Have a go hero – finding different devices

Wireshark traces can be a bit daunting at times, and even for a reasonably populated wireless network, you could end up sniffing a few thousand packets. Hence, it is important to be able to drill down to only those packets which interest us. This can be accomplished using filters in Wireshark. Explore how you can use these filters to identify unique wireless devices in the traces—bot access points and wireless clients.

If you are unable to do this, don't worry as this is the next thing we will learn.