[Winpcap-users] how to capture ieee 802.11 frame in the client computer connected in ad hoc network using winpcap 4.1.2

[Sunil Kumar]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM, suad alasady <suad_alasady at yahoo.com>wrote:

>  dear all
> i'm MSC student in Iraq,university of Babylon, my problem in the scope of
> security in wireless network (ad hoc network),  i made an ad hoc network in
> my house, i want to capture the ieee 802.11 data frame in order to modify
> some fields of it by the client node  , and then send it to the server node
> ,the server node must analyze the frame in order to extract the modified
> information and then send a message to the client to arrive this
> information.
>  I'm a new in winpcap programming , so please i want to know
>  1- how can i do that?i.e. how can i capture the ieee 802.11 frame?
>  2- what is the structure of the ieee 802.11 frame in c/c++? and where i
> should add it?
>  3- i have winpcap 4.1.2 , is this version support the wireless ?and is
> this version work on windows xp ?
>  with my great thanks
> suad alasady, university of Babylon ,Iraq
>
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AFAIK
*) Captured packets are stream of bytes.
*) These are independent of Network.
*) You need to map them to a packet structure as needed (i did for Ethernet
II :). Did not look for any libraries.
*) It does work on XP. I have not tried for Wireless but i think it works.

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